"Look at me and be appalled": essays on Job, theology, and ethics : an interdiscplinary dialogue
"This collection of eighteen essays addresses critical theological and ethical issues in the book of Job: (1) Prologue: From Eden to Uz; (2) Job and His Friends: "What Provokes You that You Keep on Talking?"; (3) Job and the Priests: "Look At Me and Be Appalled;" (4) Traumat...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2021]
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| In: |
Biblical interpretation series (volume 190)
Year: 2021 |
| Series/Journal: | Biblical interpretation series
volume 190 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Job Biblical character
/ Theologian
/ Ethics
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible. Occupation
Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Table of Contents Blurb |
| Summary: | "This collection of eighteen essays addresses critical theological and ethical issues in the book of Job: (1) Prologue: From Eden to Uz; (2) Job and His Friends: "What Provokes You that You Keep on Talking?"; (3) Job and the Priests: "Look At Me and Be Appalled;" (4) Traumatizing Job: "God Has Worn Me Out;" (5) Out of the Whirlwind: "Can You Thunder with A Voice Like God's?"; (6) Preaching Job and Job's God: "Listen Carefully to My Words;" (7) Epilogue: "All's Well That Ends Well" ... or Is it? The lead essay raises the question that lingers over the entire book: What are we to think of a God who is complicit in the death of seven sons and three daughters "for no reason"?"-- |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9004453458 |