“Look At Me and Be Appalled”. Essays on Job, Theology, and Ethics

An Interdisciplinary Dialogue

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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”?
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Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright page
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
Figures
Abbreviations
Part 1 Prologue: From Eden to Uz
Chapter 1 “For No Reason”
Part 2 Job and His Friends: “What Provokes You That You Keep on Talking?”
Chapter 2 Who Will Be Job’s Redeemer?
Chapter 3 “Let Love Clasp Grief Lest Both Be Drowned”
Chapter 4 “What Are Human Beings That You Make So Much of Them?” Responses and Counter-Responses from Job, Prometheus, and Frankenstein
Chapter 5 “What Provokes You That You Keep on Talking?”
Part 3 Job and the Priests: “Look at Me and Be Appalled”
Chapter 6 Job as Priest to the Priests
Chapter 7 Job and the Priests: “He Leads Priests Away Stripped” (Job 12:19)
Chapter 8 “My Servant Job Shall Pray for You”
Part 4 Traumatizing Job: “God Has Worn Me Out”
Chapter 9 “Ask the Animals, and They Will Teach You”
Chapter 10 Inside the “Sanctuary of Silence”: The Moral-Ethical Demands of Suffering
Chapter 11 Traumatizing Job
Part 5 Out of the Whirlwind: “Can You Thunder with a Voice Like God’s?”
Chapter 12 “What Are Human Beings, That You Make So Much of Them?” Divine Disclosure from the Whirlwind: “Look at Behemoth”
Chapter 13 “Will You Condemn Me That You May Be Justified?” – The Character of God in Job
Chapter 14 The Joban Theophany and the Education of God
Part 6 Preaching Job and Job’s God: “Listen Carefully to My Words”
Chapter 15 Moral Rebellion or Reverent Submission? (Job 23:1–9, 16–17)
Chapter 16 Preaching Job’s God
Chapter 17 The Church of Saint Job
Part 7 Epilogue: “All’s Well That Ends Well” … or Is It?
Chapter 18 Re(reading) Job’s Story in a Post-Holocaust World
Back Matter
Scripture Index
Samuel E. Balentine is Professor of Old Testament Emeritus at Union Presbyterian Seminary. He is the author of numerous essays and books on Job, including a major commentary (Job, 2006) and Have You Considered My Servant Job: Understanding the Biblical Archetype of Patience (2015).
“The volume also is sprinkled with fourteen colour images, illustrating Balentine’s commitment to broad study and integration of art and literature which infuses his work with insightful depth. The gift of this collection of essays is its invitation to the reader to wrestle with the God of the book of Job, with whom Balentine has been wrestling for many years in order to grasp a blessing.”
– Brittany N. Melton, Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA, in: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Volume 46, Issue 5, June 2022.
All interested in theological and ethical issues in the Book of Job and their abiding importance for contemporary readers.
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