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The book of Job is considered by many to be the crown jewel of biblical literature. It centers on the central theme of Job’s struggle. Samuel Balentine presents the book of Job as 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. He leads readers...

The book of Job begins with a cryptic but deft announcement: “a man there was in the land of Uz.” The man’s name, of course, is Job. The prologue will describe his character and life experiences in due course. But the first datum that is given about this man is his locale. He resides in “the land of Uz.” To encounter Job, this story suggests, one must enter into a world where a place called Uz centers life in particular ways. The precise location
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