Reading Job a literary and theological commentary
"At issue in the book of Job is the existential question, "Why does innocent suffering exist?" James Crenshaw has devoted his life to studying the vexing problem of theodicy--divine justice--that troubles most religious people in the Judeo-Christian tradition, . Few individuals will c...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Macon, Ga. :
Smyth & Helwys Pub
2011.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Reading the Old Testament. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b37998523*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PART ONE: Introduction
- The patience of Job
- Related texts in the Ancient near East
- Genre
- Composition
- Date and social worlds
- Structure
- Main themes
- Warrants for the arguments
- Why poetry?
- Related texts in the Bible
- Dissent in the Bible
- Canonization
- The testament of Job
- Job in the Koran
- The flourising of the interrogative:
- Saadiah Ben Joseph Al-Fayyumi
- Job's continuing influence.
- PART TWO: Commentary
- The prologue
- The first cycle of debate
- The second cycle of debate
- The third cycle of debate
- Wisdom's inacccessibility
- The contrast between Job's past and present
- Elihu's four speeches
- The divine speeches and Job's responses
- The Epilogue
- Postscript: Why read Job today?
