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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,...

38–41). Here, surely, is the heart of the theology of Job, and it is my conviction that these chapters must control the interpretation of this book. Thus, two chapters (3 and 4) bear particularly on the first divine speech and four chapters (5–8) deal with the second divine speech. Secondly, issues of creation and evil are of enormous importance for Old Testament theology as a whole. Thus, constant comparisons are drawn with a wide range of biblical material. Thirdly, this study takes seriously the
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