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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 97808042311450804231141
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number BS1415.3
Item number .J36 1985
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Janzen, J. Gerald
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Job
Remainder of title /
Statement of responsibility, etc. J. Gerald Janzen
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Atlanta :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. John Knox Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 1985
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent viii, 273 p.
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Dimensions 24 cm.
490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Interpretation, A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note I. 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. II. Commentary -- Part One: A dialogue of heaven and earth -- Job 1-2 -- Narrative introduction to Job himself -- Job 1:1-5 -- First scene in heaven: A question which sets the drama in motion -- Job 1:6-12 -- First scene on earth: Job's affirmative response to his calamity -- Job 1:13-22 -- Second scene in heaven: The heavenly question given sharper point -- Job 2:1-7a -- Second scene on earth: Job's ambiguous response to his deepened calamity -- Job 2:7b-10 -- Narrative conclusion: Introducing Job's friends and alluding to his growing pain -- Job 2:11-13. Part Two: Dialogue: First cycle -- Job 3-14 -- Job's opening soliloquy: "To have been or not to have been" -- Job 3 -- Eliphaz's first response: "Remember the consolation you have given others" -- Job 4-5 -- Job moves from soliloquy to dialogue with the friends and with God -- Job 6-7 -- Bildad's first response: "Trust the tradition of the ancestors" -- Job 8 -- Job responds to Bildad by seeking common ground with God in the sensibilities of law-court and workshop -- Job 9-10 -- Zophar's first response: On the hidden depths of divine wisdom -- Job 11 -- Job's response to Zophar concluding the first cycle -- Job 12-14. Part Three: Dialogue: Second cycle Job 15-21 -- Eliphaz's second response to Job challenging his implied standpoint -- Job 15 -- Job responds to Eliphaz II: On comfort, witness, and the energy of hope -- Job 16-17 -- Bildad's second response to Job: The place of the wicked in a moral universe -- Job 18 -- Job's response to Bildad II: A sense of kinship beyond a sense of total abandonment -- Job 19 -- Zophar's second response to Job: The portion of the wicked in a moral universe -- Job 20 -- Job's response to Zophar II: The true horror of the fate of the wicked -- Job 21. Part Four: Dialogue: Third cycle Job 22-27 -- Eliphaz's third response to Job: Direct attack and renewed appeal for submission -- Job 22 -- Job's response to Eliphaz III: A search for God in space and time -- Job 23-24 -- The dialogue breaks down -- Job 25-27. Part Five: Soliloquy -- Job 28-31 -- A meditation on wisdom -- Job 28 -- Job's summing up: Recollection of things past, recognition of things present, and a final oat -- Job 29-31. Part Six: A voice for God, the voice of God, and Job's response -- Job 32-42:6 -- The sudden appearance of Elihu as an inspired young prophet -- Job 32-37 -- Yahweh's questions from the whirlwind -- Job 38-41 -- Job's response to Yahweh: Confession as covenant speech. Part Seven: Epilogue: Order and freedom in felicity -- Job 42:7-17 -- Yahweh and the friends of Job -- Job 42:7-9 -- Restoration and more -- Job 42:10-17.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Bible. -- Job -- Commentaries.Religion-- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.Religion -- Biblical Studies -- Wisdom Literature.
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