Job (Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary) (Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary series) - Softcover

Balentine, Samuel E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1641730196 ISBN 13: 9781641730198

Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated, 2018

Synopsis

Sam Balentine has written a breath-taking commentary on the book of Job that is sure to be the beginning point of all subsequent Job study. His writing will compel exegetes to pay attention; more than that, it will occupy pastors and theologians with the complexity of articulating the “final truth” about God, and will be an authoritative voice in the great conversation among us concerning our contemporary moral crisis. Balentine is a first rate exegete. But then, after he reads the text, he moves out in bold and daring ways to make fresh connections. He has digested every commentary, remembered every poem, taken into account of every artistic portrayal. There is not a page of this commentary on which I was not led, in generative ways, to where I had not previously been. I cannot imagine a reader who will not find it to be so. Balentine’s work is a demanding assurance that the “thickness” of humanity is still available in a way that refuses glib characterization. In this remarkable commentary series, Balentine has set a new standard of excellence . . . of artistic sensibility and of hard-nosed, faithful reading. As I have already said, “breath taking!” —Walter Bruggemann

About this title

About the Author:

Samuel E. Balentine is Professor of Old Testament at Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education, where he has taught since 2004. Prior to that, he served as a professor at Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is the author of a commentary on Leviticus in the Interpretation Bible Commentary series and The Torah’s Vision of Worship. He has edited or co-edited numerous books and scholarly journals, is co-editor of the journal Interpretation, and is General Editor of the Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary series. He lives in Richmond, Virginia.

About this edition

• Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1641730196
• ISBN 13: 9781641730198
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 768