"Look at me and be appalled" : essays on Job, theology, and ethics, an interdisciplinary dialogue / por Samuel E. Balentine.

By: Balentine, Samuel E. (Samuel Eugene), 1950- [autor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Biblical interpretation series ; 190Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill. 2021Description: XVII, 334 p. : il. ; 25 cmISBN: 9789004453456Uniform titles: Essays. Selections Subject(s): Biblia. Job -- Critica, interpretación, etc | Biblia -- Colecciones -- ComentariosUDC: 22.07(05) | 223 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"?"-- Provided by publisher.
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Monografía Biblioteca Diocesana de Córdoba
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Fondo moderno BDJP 22.07(05)BIS 190 (Browse shelf) Available 900066130

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"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"?"-- Provided by publisher.

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