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In this volume, David J.A. Clines-known for his magisterial three-volume commentary on Job in the Word Biblical Commentary series (1989-2011)-brings together a sequence of 27 of his papers on his favourite biblical book from a variety of publications.
In two sections, the wide-ranging Syntheses and the more focused Probes on particular chapters, this collection is a necessary adjunct to his commentary.
Among the titles in the Syntheses are:
- On the Poetic Achievement of the Book of Job
- Why Is There a Book of Job, and What Does It Do to You If You Read It?
- Job's Fifth Friend: An Ethical Critique of the Book of Job
- Deconstructing the Book of Job
Among the Probes the reader will find:
- False Naivety in the Prologue to Job
- In Search of the Indian Job
- Quarter Days Gone: Job 24 and the Absence of God
- Those Golden Days: Job and the Perils of Nostalgia
- Putting Elihu in his Place: A Proposal for the Relocation of Job 32-37
- One or Two Things You May Not Know about the Universe
- The Worth of Animals in the Book of Job
- Job's Crafty Conclusion, and Seven Interesting Things about the Epilogue to Job
About the author
David J.A. Clines (1938-2022) was Professor of Biblical Studies in the University of Sheffield, and a noted Old Testament scholar. He is the author of 'The Theme of the Pentateuch', 'Job 1-20', 'What Does Eve Do to Help? and Other Readerly Questions to the Old Testament', and 'Interested Parties: The Ideology of Writers and Readers of the Hebrew Bible', among others, as well as editor of 'The Dictionary of Classical Hebrew'.
