Job
Interpretation: A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching
1st Edition
Published on 3. September 2012
288 pages
978-1-61164-257-5 (ISBN)
Description
In this volume, J. Gerald Janzen examines the text of the book of Job as a literary text within the context of the history of the religion of Israel and within the broader context of the universal human condition. He approaches the basic character of the book from a literary perspective which enables him to identify human existence as exemplified in Job and to expound on the mystery of good and evil, which gives human existence its experiential texture and which together drive humans to ask the same kind of questions asked by Job. This is the first full-length commentary to present Job systematically and literarily.
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J. Gerald Janzen is MacAllister-Petticrew Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, Indiana. He is the author of numerous books and articles on the Old Testament.
Content
- Half-title Page
- Interpretation
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Series Preface
- Preface
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Dedication Page
- Introduction
- A Synopsis of the Book
- The Setting of the Book of Job in the History of the Religions of the Ancient Near East
- The Place of Job in the History of Israel's Religion
- Approach to the Interpretation of the Text
- Matters of Text: Translation and Integrity
- Outline of This Commentary
- Part One:
- Prologue A Dialogue of Heaven and Earth
- Job 1-2
- 1:1-5 Narrative Introduction to Job Himself
- 1:6-12 First Scene in Heaven: A Question Which Sets the Drama in Motion
- 1:13-22 First Scene on Earth: Job's Affirmative Response to His Calamity
- 2:1-7a Second Scene in Heaven: The Heavenly Question Given Sharper Point
- 2:7b-10 Second Scene on Earth: Job's Ambiguous Response to His Deepened Calamity
- 2.11-13 Narrative Conclusion: Introducing Job's Friends and Alluding to His Growing Pain
- Part Two:
- Dialogue: First Cycle
- Job 3-14
- 3 Job's Opening Soliloquy: "To Have Been or not to Have Been"
- 4-5 Eliphaz's First Response: "Remember the Consolation You Have Given Others"
- 6-7 Job Moves from Soliloquy to Dialogue with the Friends and with God
- 8 Bildad's First Response: "Trust the Tradition of the Ancestors"
- 9-10 Job Responds to Bildad by Seeking Common Ground with God in the Sensibilities of Law-court and Workshop
- 11 Zophar's First Response: On the Hidden Depths of Divine Wisdom
- 12-14 Job's Response to Zophar Concluding the First Cycle
- Part Three:
- Dialogue: Second Cycle
- Job 15-21
- 15 Eliphaz's Second Response to Job Challenging His Implied Standpoint
- 16-17 Job Responds to Eliphaz II: On Comfort, Witness, and the Energy of Hope
- 18 Bildad's Second Response to Job: The Place of the Wicked in a Moral Universe
- 19 Job's Response to Bildad II: A Sense of Kinship Beyond a Sense of Total Abandonment
- 20 Zophar's Second Response to Job: The Portion of the Wicked in a Moral Universe
- 21 Job's Response to Zophar II: The True Horror of the Fate of the Wicked
- Part Four:
- Dialogue: Third Cycle
- Job 22-27
- 22 Eliphaz's Third Response to Job: Direct Attack and Renewed Appeal for Submission
- 23-24 Job's Response to Eliphaz III: A Search for God in Space and Time
- 25-27 The Dialogue Breaks Down
- Part Five:
- Soliloquy
- Job 28-31
- 28 A Meditation on Wisdom
- 29-31 Job's Summing Up: Recollection of Things Past, Recognition of Things Present, and a Final Oath
- Part Six:
- A Voice for God, the Voice of God, and Job's Response
- Job 32-42:6
- 32-37 The Sudden Appearance of Elihu as an Inspired Young Prophet
- 38-41 Yahweh's Questions from the Whirlwind
- 42:1-6 Job's Response to Yahweh: Confession as Covenant Speech
- Part Seven:
- Epilogue Order and Freedom in Felicity
- Job 42:7-17
- 42:7-9 Yahweh and the Friends of Job
- 42:10-17 Restoration and More
- Bibliography
