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 God’s Struggles 1  Howard Wettstein University of California, Riverside “I am Y-H-V-H and there is none else; I form light and create darkness, Peace is my doing, and I create evil I, Y-H-V-H do all these things.” 2  Isaiah, 45:7 “A person should always stand in awe of Heaven, in private as well as in public, and admit the truth, and seek the truth in his heart.”  Jewish morning prayer “Public discussion of [religion] lurches uncomfortably between overconfident denial (‘God’ certainly does not exist, and anyway it’s all His fault) and blind allegiance.” Tony Judt, “Leslie Kolakowski (1927-2009),” The New York Review of Books, September 24, 2009 1 This paper derives from “Concluding Remarks” I gave at the University of Notre Dame conference, “My Ways Are Not Your Ways: The Character of the God of the Hebrew Bible.” I’m told by friendly critics that the written version does not quite capture the oral presentation, available at http://www.nd.edu/~cprelig/conferences/video/my_ways/wettstein1.htm 2 I use the transliterated letters of the Tetragrammaton name since the usual “The Lord” obscures the fact that the term is a proper name (unvocalized); “The Lord” and a proper name also differ dramatically with respect to distance and formality. It is important to note that it is difficult to be precise in the translation of the crucial and final word of the penultimate line of the quotation from Isaiah, like other key words at focal points in Tanach. The word is used in many nuanced ways in Tanach (all designating something in the vicinity of evil). See CARM.org, for the reading “calamity,” as in natural evil.

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