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Piercing Leviathan: God's Defeat Of Evil In The Book Of Job(New Studies in Biblical Theology)

Piercing Leviathan: God's Defeat Of Evil In The Book Of Job(New Studies in Biblical Theology)


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' … his hand pierced the fleeing serpent' (Job 26:13 ESV) One of the most challenging passages in the Old Testament book of Job comes in the Lord's second speech (chapters 40-41). The characters and the reader have waited a long time for the Lord to speak - only to receive what is traditionally interpreted as a long description of a hippopotamus and a crocodile (Behemoth and Leviathan). The stakes are very high. Is God right to run the world in such a way that allows such terrible suffering for one of his most loyal servants? Is Job right to keep trusting God in the midst of much criticism? It is difficult for modern readers to avoid a sense of frustrating anti-climax as the book concludes. Eric Ortlund argues that Behemoth and Leviathan are better understood as symbols of cosmic chaos and evil. A supernatural interpretation fits better exegetically within the book of Job and in its original context. It also helps us to appreciate the satisfying climax to the book: in describing Behemoth and Leviathan, God is directly engaging with Job's complaint about divine justice, implying that he understands the evil at loose in his creation better than Job does, that he is in control of it, and will one day destroy it.

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.

Review :
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.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781789742985
  • Publisher: Inter-Varsity Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Apollos
  • Height: 216 mm
  • No of Pages: 224
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: God's Defeat Of Evil In The Book Of Job
  • ISBN-10: 1789742986
  • Publisher Date: 19 Aug 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: New Studies in Biblical Theology
  • Width: 138 mm


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