The Prosperity of the Wicked : : A Theological Challenge in the Book of Job and in Ancient Near Eastern Literature / / Dominick Hernández.
The book of Job has long been considered the biblical text that is most relevant to the question of theodicy. Therefore, much of its interpretational history has focused on considering theological explanations for the problem of innocent suffering. This emphasis on the “righteous sufferer” motif, th...
Saved in:
Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 |
---|---|
VerfasserIn: | |
Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Perspectives on Hebrew Scriptures and its Contexts ;
36 |
Online Access: | |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (358 p.) |
Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- 1. The Prosperity of the Wicked and Divine Injustice
- 2. The Conflict over the Fate of the Wicked
- 3. “Unequivocal Reiteration”: Eliphaz in Job 15:17–35
- 4. “Woe is the Way of the Wicked”: Bildad in Job 18
- 5. “The Destitute, the Dispossessed, and the Dead”— Zophar in Job 20:4–29
- 6. The Prosperity of the Wicked According to Job—Job 21
- 7. Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Index