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Have you considered my servant Job? : understanding the biblical archetype of patience /
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 ongoi...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbia, SC :
University of South Carolina Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Studies on personalities of the Old Testament.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: "There was once a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job"
- Part I. Introduction to the characters in the didactic tale (Job 1-2 + Job 42:7-17). The Job(s) of the didactic tale : a saint in the making
- God and Satan : "Have you considered my servant Job?"
- There was once a woman in the land of Uz : Job's wife
- Part II. Center stage: the wisdom dialogue (Job 3-42:6)
- Job's words from the ash heap : the scandalous voice of defiance
- God on trial : "Who ever challenged him and came out whole?" (Job 9:4)
- Job's comforters : "Do not despise the discipline of the Almighty" (Job 5:17)
- "The the Lord answered out of the whirwind ..." (Job 38:1, 3)
- Epilogue: Job's children (Job 42:7-17).