Download or read book Theology in the Responsa written by Louis Jacobs and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1975-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rabbi Dr Louis Jacobs examines more than a thousand years of rabbinic responsa and draws from them attitudes to basic theological principles which underlie his concern with such practical questions as life after death, reward and punishment, and the problem of suffering.