The pervasiveness of evil and the suffering of innocents have confounded religious believers throughout history. Jews, with their history marked by abundant evidence of evil and their faith in an omnipotent and benevolent God, have unsurprisingly produced a vast Jewish literature that attempts to reconcile God's justice with evil's apparent dominion, in works ranging from the book of Job to Harold Kushner's best-selling When Bad Things Happen to Good People.
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