God, Man and Evil in Jewish Thought from Antiquity to the Present Day
Jewish Museum of Bologna
16-23 April; 7-14 May - 17.30-19.00
Lecturer: Piero Capelli, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Every Monday for four weeks
Registration by 12 April 2018
Why does Evil exist? Where did it originate? Who bears responsibility for it: God, Satan or man? And can man escape evil of his own free will or only through divine grace?
Around these questions Jewish thought and religiosity have laboured since the most ancient narratives of the Bible (the fall of Adam and Eve, the crime of Cain).
And it was principally starting from different answers to these very same questions that Judaism and Christianity became two different religions...
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