Joban Papers

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Extent: 456 pages

Publisher: Wiley-VCH

Subjects: Biblical Studies

Series: Hebrew Bible Monographs

Language: English

Hardback (No longer our product)

(April 2023)

ISBN: 9781914490057

6.14 x 9.21 inches

Price: $100.00

PDF (Published)

(June 2023)

ISBN: 9781918358209

Price: $75.00

In this volume David J.A. Clines-known for his magisterial three-volume commentary on Job in the Word Biblical Commentary series (1989-2011)-brings together a sequence of 27 of his papers on his favourite biblical book from a variety of publications.

In two sections the wide-ranging Syntheses and the more focused Probes on particular chapters this collection is a necessary adjunct to his commentary.

Among the titles in the Syntheses are:

– On the Poetic Achievement of the Book of Job

– Why Is There a Book of Job and What Does It Do to You If You Read It?

– Job’s Fifth Friend: An Ethical Critique of the Book of Job

– Deconstructing the Book of Job

Among the Probes the reader will find:

– False Naivety in the Prologue to Job

– In Search of the Indian Job

– Quarter Days Gone: Job 24 and the Absence of God

– Those Golden Days: Job and the Perils of Nostalgia

– Putting Elihu in his Place: A Proposal for the Relocation of Job 32-37

– One or Two Things You May Not Know about the Universe

– The Worth of Animals in the Book of Job

– Job’s Crafty Conclusion and Seven Interesting Things about the Epilogue to Job