Carol Newsom illuminates the relation between the aesthetic forms of Job and the claims made by its various characters. Her innovative approach makes possible a new understanding of the unity of the book that rejects its dismantling in historical criticism and the flattening of the text that characterizes many final form readings. Additionally, she rehabilitates the moral perspectives represented by certain voices of the book that modern critics have treated with disdain.
The theme of The Book of Job is nothing less than human suffering and the transcendence of it: it pulses with moral energy, outrage, and spiritual insight. Now, The Book...
The Book of Job has been a rich source of truth and comfort for its readers throughout the ages, but the crowning glory of this book is the prophetic testimony it bears to the sufferings that Jesus Christ would endure as the savior of his ...
Part of the Jewish Encounter series From one of our most trusted spiritual advisers, a thoughtful, illuminating guide to that most fascinating of biblical texts, the book of Job, and what it can teach us about living in a troubled world.
I highly recommend this work for those considering the evidence of the Bible's scientific claims.
At the Scent of Water will be useful not only to provide a greater understanding of the book of Job in classrooms and on pastor?s bookshelves, but also in the hands of any reader who has dealt with pain or doubt.
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John Gray, who was Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages in the University of Aberdeen, left at his death in 2000 a complete manuscript of a commentary on the Book of Job.
Now he envisages a new scenario : the blood which God has shed in his cruel acts of violence against Job will cry out for vindication like the spilled blood of Abel ( Gen. 4:10 ) . That cry will wander homeless through the earth until ...
Today, thousands of years later, we hear in these thirty-nine books his inspired and authoritative message for us.” These twin convictions, shared by all of the contributors to The New International Commentary on the Old Testament, define ...
The book of Job is the most challenging--and most engaging--of all the books in the Hebrew Scriptures.