Description
Fresh study of a key theological issue in the Old Testament book of Job
About the Author
Lecturer in Old Testament Studies and Biblical Hebrew, Oak Hill College, London. PhD New College, University of Edinburgh. MA Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Author of commentaries on Esther and Malachi in the forthcoming ESV Bible Expositional Commentary series.
Reviews
Recent years have witnessed a plethora of studies on Job, but none of them is quite like this one. Most make much of God's apparent refusal to address Job's questions directly: on this reading, God wants us to trust the One who cast Orion into the heavens, who controls the treasures of the snow, who made the crocodile. God is to be trusted because he is incomparably greater than we are. But Eric Ortlund argues that this interpretation of the book mis-reads too many passages. Probing carefully such features as the double speeches of God, the differences between Job's first and second responses to God's speeches, and the meaning of Leviathan, he argues persuasively that the Book of Job is not as open-ended as many have thought, but offers a firm foundation for Job's ultimate response. * D. A. Carson, Research Professor of New Testament, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, USA *
Book Information
ISBN 9781789742985
Author Dr Eric Ortlund
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Apollos
Publisher Inter-Varsity Press