 The traditional Jewish view is that God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent.Various Jewish thinkers, however, have proposed a "finite God", sometimes in response to the problem of evil and ideas about free will.Louis Jacobs writes that modern Jewish thinkers such as Levi Olan, echoing some classical Jewish writers such as the 14th-century Talmudist Gersonides have "thought of God as limited by His own nature so that while He is infinite in some respects he is finite in others", referencing the idea, present in classical sources, that "there is a primal formless material co-existent with God from all eternity upon which God has to work, and that God only knows the future in a general sense, but not how individual men will exercise their choice".