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Summary: Dimensions of suffering, and a God that hides His Face
Review: Have you read "The Dimensions of Job"?
With Sorjen Kierkegaard I ask you to read it very carefully. why? Because Professor Glatzer got with him a marvelous band of thinkers to try to unclue the mystery of job and his calamity. Buber, kaufmann and Baeck relate Job to Koholet, while God hides His Face, inspite of the psamists who cried again and again.What do Christians say about Job?
J. Danielou, E. Renan, and H. Rowley elaborate on mystery, soul's cry, and intellectually spiritual solutions. Ehrenberg concentrates on the non compassionate theology of Job's companion Elihu! Ragaz gives an ultimate clue; God Himself is the answer. The message of the suffering servant prophetically revieled by Isaia, was fulfilled in Jesus Christ the redeemer.
(Isaia 53:1:12) The Mystery of Job:
The book of Job is considered the most ancient of bible books, yet it holds a challenge for all Old Testaments theologians, from Von Rad to W. Brueggemann. Many suggestions and insinuations were given to his original identity or its literary form; a Greek mythology, an Egyptian wisdom, or a Jewish poetry.
Its reputation, it earned perhaps because of its obscure Hebrew, or its poetic rendering, making translations harder to understand, Or perhaps because it's topic is too painful and the answers too Theodicy oriented. When many feel persecuted by men, or abandoned by God, Americans attempt to meditate on its words after September the eleventh 2001. Main issues in Job:
Most scholars argue that Job is a poetic apology in vindication of the justice and goodness of Adonai, Lord of Hosts. Although these divine features are evident in the narrative, its main purpose may stay obscure. Job is blameless and upright from the beginning and, although embittered, nothing is able to move his faith. He declared, "If He would slay me, I should argue my cause to His face." Job 13:15, NEB. Satan was allowed to test Job and was unsuccessful. Job didn't he was proving God's confidence in him. The integrity of Job is thus an indicator of the greater eternal truth of the integrity of Adonai Himself. Trials came to God's children through the ages, Satan's claims proven by the faithful to be always in vain, by the power to overcome through the grace of the Victorious Lord. The Dimensions of Job:
Nahum Glatzer has orchestrated some of the most controversial commentaries on Job's theme and introduced the socio-ethical background for theodicy based on Jewish, Christian, and Humanist view points. His elaborate introduction and first three chapters masterfully guide you into the Issue of theodicy. He came to his conclusion in the last two chapters, the mysterious ways of God, and Job as a lesson in faith. Meaningful Comments on Job:
Read Job, read him:
"You surely have read job? Read him, read him over and over again...because every thing about him is so human." S. Kierkegaard A God who hides His face
It has been rightly said that behind the treatment of Job's fate in this discussion lie "very bitter experience of a supra individual kind." When the sufferer complains, "He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone" (Job 19:10), this seems no more a complaint of a single person. Martin Buber Why do we suffer?
The question of the generation,"Why do we suffer what we suffer?" had from the beginning a religious character;"Why?" here is not a philosophic interrogative asking after nature of things, but a religious concern with the acting of God.
Martin Buber
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Summary: Dimensions of suffering, and a God that hides His Face
Review: Have you read "The Dimensions of Job"?
With Sorjen Kierkegaard I ask you to read it very carefully. why? Because Professor Glatzer got with him a marvelous band of thinkers to try to unclue the mystery of job and his calamity. Buber, kaufmann and Baeck relate Job to Koholet, while God hides His Face, inspite of the psamists who cried again and again. What do Christians say about Job?
J. Danielou, E. Renan, and H. Rowley elaborate on mystery, soul's cry, and intellectually spiritual solutions. Ehrenberg concentrates on the non compassionate theology of Job's companion Elihu! Ragaz gives an ultimate clue; God Himself is the answer. The message of the suffering servant prophetically revieled by Isaia, was fulfilled in Jesus Christ the redeemer.
(Isaia 53:1:12) The Mystery of Job:
The book of Job is considered the most ancient of bible books, yet it holds a challenge for all Old Testaments theologians, from Von Rad to W. Brueggemann. Many suggestions and insinuations were given to his original identity or its literary form; a Greek mythology, an Egyptian wisdom, or a Jewish poetry.
Its reputation, it earned perhaps because of its obscure Hebrew, or its poetic rendering, making translations harder to understand, Or perhaps because it's topic is too painful and the answers too Theodicy oriented. When many feel persecuted by men, or abandoned by God, Americans attempt to meditate on its words after September the eleventh 2001. Main issues in Job:
Most scholars argue that Job is a poetic apology in vindication of the justice and goodness of Adonai, Lord of Hosts. Although these divine features are evident in the narrative, its main purpose may stay obscure. Job is blameless and upright from the beginning and, although embittered, nothing is able to move his faith. He declared, "If He would slay me, I should argue my cause to His face." Job 13:15, NEB. Satan was allowed to test Job and was unsuccessful. Job didn't he was proving God's confidence in him. The integrity of Job is thus an indicator of the greater eternal truth of the integrity of Adonai Himself. Trials came to God's children through the ages, Satan's claims proven by the faithful to be always in vain, by the power to overcome through the grace of the Victorious Lord. The Dimensions of Job:
Nahum Glatzer has orchestrated some of the most controversial commentaries on Job's theme and introduced the socio-ethical background for theodicy based on Jewish, Christian, and Humanist view points. His elaborate introduction and first three chapters masterfully guide you into the Issue of theodicy. He came to his conclusion in the last two chapters, the mysterious ways of God, and Job as a lesson in faith. Meaningful Comments on Job:
Read Job, read him:
"You surely have read job? Read him, read him over and over again...because every thing about him is so human." S. Kierkegaard A God who hides His face
It has been rightly said that behind the treatment of Job's fate in this discussion lie "very bitter experience of a supra individual kind." When the sufferer complains, "He hath broken me down on every side, and I am gone" (Job 19:10), this seems no more a complaint of a single person. Martin Buber Why do we suffer?
The question of the generation,"Why do we suffer what we suffer?" had from the beginning a religious character;"Why?" here is not a philosophic interrogative asking after nature of things, but a religious concern with the acting of God.
Martin Buber
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