Israel Knohl
Why is There Evil in Our World?
Sunday, March 21st, 2027 - 2:00-3:30pm ET
Sunday, March 21st, 2027, 2:00-3:30pm ET
Why is There Evil in Our World?
The Hebrew Bible wrestles with one of humanity’s most enduring questions: Why does evil exist? Is evil somehow part of the Divine, or did it enter the world through the actions of angels or human beings? Could a primordial evil have existed alongside God even before creation?
This conversation explores these and other Jewish approaches to the problem of evil, and what they might teach us about the nature of God, humanity, and the world we inhabit.
Israel Knohl has a doctorate in Bible from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he is the Yehezkel Kaufmann Professor of Bible.
Israel served as a visiting professor at Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University and the University of Chicago Divinity School.
His numerous publications include: The Sanctuary of Silence (Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 1994), which won the Z. Shkopp Prize for Biblical Studies; The Messiah before Jesus: The Suffering Servant of the Dead Sea Scrolls (University of California Press, 2000), which was published in eight languages; The Divine Symphony: The Bible’s Many Voices (JPS, 2003) and La disputa messianica (Adelphi, 2025).
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