Have You Considered My Servant Job?: Understanding the Biblical Archetype of Patience

by Samuel E Balentine and Samuel E. Balentine

An in-depth examination and analysis of the chapters focused on the patient biblical character

The question that launches Job's story is posed by God at the outset of the story: "Have you considered my servant Job?" (1:8; 2:3). By any estimation the answer to this question must be yes. The forty-two chapters that form the biblical story have in fact opened the story to an ongoing practice of reading and rereading, evaluating and reevaluating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611174511
• ISBN13: 9781611174519
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"