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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Macon, Ga. :
Smyth & Helwys Pub.,
©2011.
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| Series: | Reading the Old Testament series.
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Table of Contents:
- 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?