05433cam a2200733Ki 4500 ocn899265123 OCoLC 20200709060245.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 150107s2015 scu ob 001 0 eng d N$T eng rda pn N$T OCLCA P@U CDX YDXCP E7B OCLCF EBLCP VLB TXI D6H ICA YDX AGLDB EZ9 OCLCQ JBG MOR PIFAG ZCU NRC COO MERUC OCLCQ IOG OCLCO U3W STF OCLCO OCLCQ VTS ICG INT VT2 JSTOR 966383789 967823343 9781611174526 (electronic bk.) 161117452X (electronic bk.) 9781611174519 1611174511 872518 (N$T) (OCoLC)899265123 (OCoLC)966383789 (OCoLC)967823343 22573/ctv6vth1x JSTOR BS1415.52 .B35 2015eb REL 006210 bisacsh REL 006740 bisacsh REL 006090 bisacsh 223/.106 23 ELECTRONIC BOOK z MAIN Balentine, Samuel E. (Samuel Eugene), 1950- Have you considered my servant Job? : understanding the biblical archetype of patience / Samuel E. Balentine. Columbia, SC : University of South Carolina Press, 2015. 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Studies on Personalities of the Old Testament Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record. 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). 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 ongoing practice of reading and rereading, evaluating and reevaluating. Early Greek and Jewish translators emphasized some aspects of the story and omitted others; the Church Fathers interpreted Job as a forerunner of Christ, while medieval Jewish commentators debated conservative and liberal interpretations of God's providential love. Artists, beginning at least in the Greco-Roman period, painted and sculpted their own interpretations of Job. Novelists, playwrights, poets, and musicians--religious and irreligious, from virtually all points of the globe--have added their own distinctive readings. In Have You Considered My Servant Job?, Samuel E. Balentine examines this rich and varied history of interpretation by focusing on the principal characters in the story--Job, God, the Satan figure, Job's wife, and Job's friends. Each chapter begins with a concise analysis of the biblical description of these characters, then explores how subsequent readers have expanded or reduced the story, shifted its major emphases or retained them, read the story as history or as fiction, and applied the morals of the story to the present or dismissed them as irrelevant. Master record variable field(s) change: 072 Bible. Job Criticism, interpretation, etc. Job (Biblical figure) Job (Biblical figure) fast (OCoLC)fst00013708 Bible. Job. fast (OCoLC)fst01892916 Patience Biblical teaching. RELIGION Biblical Studies Old Testament. bisacsh RELIGION Biblical Studies Wisdom Literature. bisacsh Patience Biblical teaching. fast (OCoLC)fst01054993 RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament bisacsh Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast (OCoLC)fst01411635 Print version: Balentine, Samuel E. (Samuel Eugene), 1950- Have you considered my servant Job? 9781611174519 (DLC) 2014044828 (OCoLC)893455612 Studies on personalities of the Old Testament. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=872518 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=e000xna&AN=872518 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=872518 Coutts Information Services COUT 30542985 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL2054842 ebrary EBRY ebr11005688 EBSCOhost EBSC 872518 Project MUSE MUSE muse41879 YBP Library Services YANK 12236772 92 N$T 55633 55633