"Look at Me and Be Appalled". Essays on Job, Theology, and Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

By Samuel E. Balentine

This collection of eighteen essays addresses critical theological and ethical issues in the book of Job: (1) Prologue: From Eden to Uz; (2) Job and His Friends: "What Provokes You that You Keep on Talking?"; (3) Job and the Priests: "Look At Me and Be Appalled;" (4) Traumatizing Job: "God Has Worn Me Out;" (5) Out of the Whirlwind: "Can You Thunder with A Voice Like God's?"; (6) Preaching Job and Job's God: "Listen Carefully to My Words;" (7) Epilogue: "All's Well That Ends Well" ... or Is it? The lead essay raises the question that lingers over the entire book: What are we to think of a God who is complicit in the death of seven sons and three daughters "for no reason"?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004453458
• ISBN13: 9789004453456
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"