The book of Job presents a unique and detailed contrastive study of two fundamental and fundamentally opposed religious personae: Job, on the one hand, and the collective image of his friends on the other. It is a normative dispute about the religion’s most basic norm of disposition. How is one to respond to inexplicable disaster when one believes one is blameless? What is the religiously appropriate response to catastrophe? To confront God’s judgment as did Job, or to submissively surrender to it, as his four friends insist he should? Is one supposed to question divine justice when deemed to be wanting, as did Job, or to suppress any thought to the contrary and deem it to be just, come what may? Rather than expound (onc...
God is often portrayed extremely negatively in the Old Testament. For example, in the Book of Nahum ...
Job is one of the most difficult books in Hebrew Scripture: in language, poetic rhetoric, subject ma...
Reading the book of Job can be an uncomfortable, dissatisfying and ambiguous experience...
The aim of this lecture is to present the outline of a research project in progress on the book of J...
Job's piety in The Book of Job is so ideal that it becomes problematic on two levels. First, it rend...
ABSTRACT: This ethico-theological study analyzes aspects of moral issues from the accounts found in ...
The paper seeks to delve into an existential question at the confluence of Scripture studies, metaph...
Although much has been written about the Book of Job, no consensus exists among scholars with regard...
The book of Job prominently portrays the motif of the pious sufferer and the confrontation between J...
This article focuses upon the manner in which the Book of Job’s dissonant messages of theological ra...
The Book of Job displays well the reality of the human predicament. However, does the Book of Job pr...
Is it reasonable to believe in a God of love in the face of life's many evils? In this essay I consi...
The article aims to uncover a deep ambivalence in the figure of Job, as it is presented in the book ...
Does Job convincingly argue against a fixed system of just retribution by proclaiming the prosperity...
In an ironical but at the same time esthetically pleasing way, the position of the reader with regar...
God is often portrayed extremely negatively in the Old Testament. For example, in the Book of Nahum ...
Job is one of the most difficult books in Hebrew Scripture: in language, poetic rhetoric, subject ma...
Reading the book of Job can be an uncomfortable, dissatisfying and ambiguous experience...
The aim of this lecture is to present the outline of a research project in progress on the book of J...
Job's piety in The Book of Job is so ideal that it becomes problematic on two levels. First, it rend...
ABSTRACT: This ethico-theological study analyzes aspects of moral issues from the accounts found in ...
The paper seeks to delve into an existential question at the confluence of Scripture studies, metaph...
Although much has been written about the Book of Job, no consensus exists among scholars with regard...
The book of Job prominently portrays the motif of the pious sufferer and the confrontation between J...
This article focuses upon the manner in which the Book of Job’s dissonant messages of theological ra...
The Book of Job displays well the reality of the human predicament. However, does the Book of Job pr...
Is it reasonable to believe in a God of love in the face of life's many evils? In this essay I consi...
The article aims to uncover a deep ambivalence in the figure of Job, as it is presented in the book ...
Does Job convincingly argue against a fixed system of just retribution by proclaiming the prosperity...
In an ironical but at the same time esthetically pleasing way, the position of the reader with regar...
God is often portrayed extremely negatively in the Old Testament. For example, in the Book of Nahum ...
Job is one of the most difficult books in Hebrew Scripture: in language, poetic rhetoric, subject ma...
Reading the book of Job can be an uncomfortable, dissatisfying and ambiguous experience...