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Author | : Samuel E. Balentine |
Publisher | : Univ of South Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2015-01-09 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 161117452X |
An extensive history of how the Bible’s story of Job has been interpreted through the ages. The question that launches Job’s story is posed by God at the outset of the story: “Have you considered my servant Job?” (1:8; 2:3). By any estimation the answer to this question must be yes. The forty-two chapters that form the biblical story have in fact opened the story to an ongoing practice of reading and rereading, evaluating and reevaluating. Early Greek and Jewish translators emphasized some aspects of the story and omitted others; the Church Fathers interpreted Job as a forerunner of Christ, while medieval Jewish commentators debated conservative and liberal interpretations of God’s providential love. Artists, beginning at least in the Greco-Roman period, painted and sculpted their own interpretations of Job. Novelists, playwrights, poets, and musicians—religious and irreligious, from virtually all points of the globe—have added their own distinctive readings. In Have You Considered My Servant Job?, Samuel E. Balentine examines this rich and varied history of interpretation by focusing on the principal characters in the story—Job, God, the satan figure, Job’s wife, and Job’s friends. Each chapter begins with a concise analysis of the biblical description of these characters, then explores how subsequent readers have expanded or reduced the story, shifted its major emphases or retained them, read the story as history or as fiction, and applied the morals of the story to the present or dismissed them as irrelevant. Each new generation of readers is shaped by different historical, cultural, and political contexts, which in turn require new interpretations of an old yet continually mesmerizing story. Voltaire read Job one way in the eighteenth century, Herman Melville a different way in the nineteenth century. Goethe’s reading of the satan figure in Faust is not the same as Chaucer’s in The Canterbury Tales, and neither is fully consonant with the Testament of Job or the Qur’an. One need only compare the descriptions of God in the biblical account with the imaginative renderings by Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Franz Kafka to see that the effort to understand why God afflicts Job “for no reason” (2:3) continues to be both compelling and endlessly complicated. “A tour de force of cultural interaction with the book of Job. He guides today’s reader along the path of Job interpretation, exegesis, adaptation and imagining revealing the sheer variety of themes, meanings, creativity and re-readings that have been inspired by this one biblical book. Balentine shows us that not only is there “always someone playing Job” (MacLeish, J.B.) but there’s always someone, past or present, reading this ever-enigmatic book.” —Katharine J. Dell, University of Cambridge “Balentine “considers Job” for the countless ways this biblical book, in all its rich complexities, has inspired readers over the centuries. . . . Balentine’s volume sparkles with insightful theological commentary and rigorous scholarship, and any exegetical course or study on Job would benefit from it.” —Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology
Author | : Douglas Bond |
Publisher | : P & R Publishing |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2015-10-12 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9781596387348 |
God's Servant Job tells the story of Gods faithful servant Job in verse. This beautifully illustrated book explains foundational theology for younger children as it points to a glorious Redeemer.
Author | : Paul Y. Hoskisson |
Publisher | : Shadow Mountain |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : 9781590385333 |
Author | : Leo G. Perdue |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ellen Gould Harmon White |
Publisher | : Review and Herald Pub Assoc |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780828015059 |
Author | : Samuel Eugene Balentine |
Publisher | : Studies on Personalities of th |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781611174519 |
An in-depth examination and analysis of the chapters focused on the patient biblical character The question that launches Job's story is posed by God at the outset of the story: "Have you considered my servant Job?" (1:8; 2:3). By any estimation the answer to this question must be yes. The forty-two chapters that form the biblical story have in fact opened the story to an ongoing practice of reading and rereading, evaluating and reevaluating. Early Greek and Jewish translators emphasized some aspects of the story and omitted others; the Church Fathers interpreted Job as a forerunner of Christ, while medieval Jewish commentators debated conservative and liberal interpretations of God's providential love. Artists, beginning at least in the Greco-Roman period, painted and sculpted their own interpretations of Job. Novelists, playwrights, poets, and musicians--religious and irreligious, from virtually all points of the globe--have added their own distinctive readings. In Have You Considered My Servant Job?, Samuel E. Balentine examines this rich and varied history of interpretation by focusing on the principal characters in the story--Job, God, the satan figure, Job's wife, and Job's friends. Each chapter begins with a concise analysis of the biblical description of these characters, then explores how subsequent readers have expanded or reduced the story, shifted its major emphases or retained them, read the story as history or as fiction, and applied the morals of the story to the present or dismissed them as irrelevant. Each new generation of readers is shaped by different historical, cultural, and political contexts, which in turn require new interpretations of an old yet continually mesmerizing story. Voltaire read Job one way in the eighteenth century, Herman Melville a different way in the nineteenth century. Goethe's reading of the satan figure in Faust is not the same as Chaucer's in The Canterbury Tales, and neither is fully consonant with the Testament of Job or the Qur'an. One need only compare the descriptions of God in the biblical account with the imaginative renderings by Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Franz Kafka to see that the effort to understand why God afflicts Job "for no reason" (2:3) continues to be both compelling and endlessly complicated.
Author | : Walter Brueggemann |
Publisher | : Fortress Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781451419689 |
This scholarly study of the Psalms retains its rigor while focusing particularly on the pastoral use of the Psalms, looking at how they may function as voices of faith in the actual life of the believing community.
Author | : Peter Krol |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2022-05-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781949253337 |
Knowable Word offers a foundation on why and how to study the Bible. Through a running study Genesis 1, this new edition illustrates how to Observe, Interpret, and Apply the Scripture-and gives the vision behind each step.
Author | : Taryn Cleaves |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-10-06 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9789357613125 |
These poems were written during a traumatic time in my life--the unexpected loss of my job as children's pastor at my church in Iowa. Deeply wounded, betrayed by those who I had believed to be personal friends, unjustly "asked to resign" (aka terminated), and reeling from it all, I felt like I had lost everything while serving Christ faithfully. Job is the one person from the Bible that we are never encouraged to emulate, quite honestly, because none of us really WANT to emulate him. Still, life often feels as though God has voluntold us for many of our unexpected trials. So we sit and wait for His answer through the pain, heartache and seeming silence.
Author | : Nahum M. Sarna |
Publisher | : Schocken |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 1995-01-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0805210237 |
This book is the result of a lifetime of study of the Hebrew Bible by a mature scholar whose love of the Tanakh, and especially of the Psalter, shines through on every page.