Look at Me and Be Appalled . Essays on Job, Theology, and Ethics : An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Look at Me and Be Appalled . Essays on Job, Theology, and Ethics : An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
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Author(s): Balentine, Samuel E.
ISBN No.: 9789004453456
Pages: XVIII, 334
Year: 202103
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 248.40
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

"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"?"--.


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