Job

Job
Author :
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 255
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781592446599
ISBN-13 : 1592446590
Rating : 4/5 (590 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Job by : Samuel Terrien

Download or read book Job written by Samuel Terrien and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2004-04-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortly after Dr. Terrien had completed his illuminating book on 'The Psalms and Their Meaning for Today', he decided to write a book about Job. This book, like its predecessor, is intended for the general reader: to give him a fuller knowledge, clearer understanding, and deeper appreciation of the religious and literary values of a truly great dramatic poem. Job, more than any other book of the Bible, belongs to the literature of the world. Yet who reads this poem in our day? Classics bear the burden of greatness. They are celebrated and unknown. Of such is Job, today unknown even to those who claim no immunity to cultural urges. Incidentally, the fact that this classic happens to belong to the Bible does not explain its quality of 'terra incognita', for it is neglected also by synagogue and church goers who daily read other portions of Scripture. The ancient Hebrew poem is modern, for it proffers a plea for pure religion. The poet of Job did not attempt to solve the problem of evil, nor did he propose a vindication of the justice of God. For him, any attempt of man to justify God would have been an act of arrogance. But he knew and promoted in the immediacy of faith a mode of life and in the very pangs of insecurity a sense of triumph. He transmuted the taste of sorrow into the knowledge of joy - not in the shallowness of gaiety, to be sure, but the depth of a joy brought by the presence of one who moves and warms the worlds.


Job Related Books

Job
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Samuel Terrien
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-14 - Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Shortly after Dr. Terrien had completed his illuminating book on 'The Psalms and Their Meaning for Today', he decided to write a book about Job. This book, like
The World of Ancient Israel
Language: en
Pages: 454
Authors: Society for Old Testament Study
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Encapsulating as it does research that has been undertaken on the sociological, anthropological and political aspects of the history of ancient Israel, this imp
The Innkeeper
Language: en
Pages: 38
Authors: John Piper
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-14 - Publisher: Crossway

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Only two weeks from his crucifixion, Jesus has stopped in Bethlehem. He has returned to visit someone important—the innkeeper who made a place for Mary and Jo
Faust, a dramatic poem, tr. into Engl. prose with notes by the translator of Savigny's 'Of the vocation of our age for legislation'
Language: en
Pages: 362
The BOOK OF JOB
Language: en
Pages: 180
Authors: Stephen Mitchell
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-06-26 - Publisher: Harper Perennial

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The theme of The Book of Job is nothing less than human suffering and the transcendence of it: it pulses with moral energy, outrage, and spiritual insight. Now,