Written by caring and accomplished scholars with all students of Scripture in mind, this innovative series makes quality Bible study more accessible. Pastors, professors and students of Scripture are discovering that this commentary provides wonderful new tools for enhancing interpretation: informative sidebars, a wealth of fine art visuals, and a searchable CD containing the digital version of the entire work.
The book of Job is considered by many to be the crown jewel of biblical literature in its claim to speak about God. The word that defines the challenge for every reader of the book is "struggle." The struggle results from the fact that whatever Job's truth may be, he was neither the first nor the last to try to articulate it. In the midst of so many words in this world about God from writers within and outside the scriptural witness, this book offers a truly astonishing declaration about what it means to live in a world where order breaks down and chaos runs amok, where the innocent suffer and the wicked thrive, where cries for help go unanswered. This new commentary by biblical scholar Samuel Balentine leads readers on an in-depth and far-reaching look at the nature of the book of Job and the various attempts by the many who have sought to further explore Job's essential struggle.
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While I haven't read the commentary from cover to cover at this point, I am far enough along to point to let you know my favorable reaction to this resource. Just the art work alone would make this a valued resource in any library.
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Can a man be profitable to God? Job 22:2,
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When a man serves God as devotedly as Dr. Balentine has with this book (trusting Him through the struggle itself), yes, Eliphaz, he can be of real use to the Almighty.
At the end, the edge of creation (Antarctica 1915), with his ship sunk and his shipmates stranded on an ice floe facing polar night, Ernest Shackleton ordered abandonment of all non essential possessions. He threw away his gold sovereigns and watch, and the ship's Bible (given to him by the Queen Mother). Each man was allowed to keep his own pocket diary and only two pounds of survival gear. Shackleton chose to keep some of the expedition photographs and a page from the book of Job. Should scholars and explorers of the Bible who own a copy of Dr. Balentine's commentary ever face a dire paring of their possessions, they will likewise throw away gold and even necessities before they part with this particular "page" of Job.
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