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Now My Eyes Have Seen You: Images of Creation and Evil in the Book of Job is unavailable, but you can change that!

“Now my eyes have seen you” (Job 42:5). Few Biblical texts are more daunting, and yet more fascinating, than the book of Job—and few have been the subject of such diverse interpretation. For Robert Fyall, the mystery of God’s ways and the appalling evil and suffering in the world are at the heart of Job’s significant contribution to the canon of Scripture. He offers a holistic reading of Job,...

have gone very close to casting God as the villain of the piece.8 This, among other things, is a misunderstanding of the nature of what is happening. In dramatic terms we can refer to this as a ‘wager’ and this certainly captures the suspense of the situation and the huge issues at stake. What would be illegitimate is to press this notion further and present God as a cosmic dramatist interested only in a suspenseful story and so indifferent to the lives even of his servants that he plays with them
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