Job
JOB. The biblical Book of Job is included among the Writings (Ketubim) in the Hebrew Bible and among the Poetic books in the Old Testament. Along with Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Sirach, it is par...
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Calvin was an influential French theologian and Protestant reformer. Among his most famous writings is the Christianae Religionis Institutio, (1536; Institutes of the Christian Religion). Although pri...
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[Sewall is an American critic and educator whose critical study The Vision of Tragedy, originally published in 1959, was lauded by critics and declared an "academic bestseller. "In the f...
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Goodheart is an American critic and educator. In the following essay he contrasts modern interpretations of Job's suffering in several fictional works with the original intent of TheBookof Job....
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Gordis is an American rabbi, theologian, and editor who has written broadly on Jewish culture and theology. In the following essay he focuses on God's speeches in The Book of Job, examining var...
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In the following excerpt from his introduction to The Anchor Bible: Job, Pope examines several points of critical debate surrounding The Book of Job: the question of textual integrity, the form and or...
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A Canadian critic and editor, Frye is the author of the highly influential and controversial Anatomy of Criticism (1957), in which he argued that literary criticism can be scientific in its method and...
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Girard is a French scholar whose critical studies include Mensonge romantique et vérité romanesque (1961; Deceit, Desire and the Novel), and La Violence et le sacré (1972; Violence and ...
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An American professor of the Bible and of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures, Greenberg has published works that include The Religion of Israel (1963) and Introduction to Hebrew (1964). In t...
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Good is a Cameroonian-born theologian whose writings include Irony in the Old Testament (1965) and Job and the Literary Task: A Response (1973). In the following essay he offers an analysis of the fir...
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[A principal figure of the French Enlightenment, Voltaire promoted the highest ideals of the Age of Reason, particularly Bible, twelfth century. Job's seven sons and three daughters are behi...
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Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher and theologian who is widely regarded as the founder of Existentialist philosophy. He was primarily concerned with ethical questions as they were experienced by in...
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Royce was an American philosopher whose writings encompass the fields of mathematical logic, psychology, metaphysics, religion, and social ethics. He is noted for developing an idealist philosophy emp...
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Davidson was editor of The Book of Job for the Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges, and Toy was a distinguished American scholar of Hebrew. In the following essay, originally published as "...
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In the following excerpt from the introduction to his critical study The Book of Job Interpreted, Strahan interprets The Book of Job as a visionary author's response to an era of change in Isra...
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Altarpiece, c. 1480-83. Cycle of scenes from the nonbiblical life of Job, including the visit of an angel (upper left) and Job and the minstrels (lower right).
In the following essay from hi...
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Weiss was a leading American philosopher whose works include Nature and Man (1947), Man's Freedom (1950), Modes of Being (1958), The World of Art (1961), Art and Religion (1963), The Making of ...
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Terrien is a French-born American theologian, educator, and pastor whose writings include The Psalms and Their Meaning for Today (1952), Le Livre de Job: Commentaire (1963; The Book of Job: A Commenta...
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One might ask, why has God, selected these two men, of all the men in the world, to be His personal targets for moral learning and spiritual growth? Even though these heroes share a myriad of dis...
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In this paper I will be discussing how arrogance plays a major role in literature. Before I begin one needs to fully understand what arrogance is. Arrogance is a state of mind that does not allow a pe...
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If my last venture in charity had been the Oil for Food program, which fleeced the starving in order to enrich Saddam Hussein, I would not have criticized America's first response to the tsunami. B...
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The message flickered into Cindy Fleenor's living room each night: Be faithful in how you live and how you give, the television preachers said, and God will shower you with material riches.And so t...
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In the ill-wind-that-blows-no-good department, special consideration should be given to the American politicians photo-opping their way through the catastrophic sadness of Southeast Asia. Due reco...
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The Bush administration's latest immigration policy may shut out illegals but could also export jobs, business groups warn.The policy forces employers to fire people who can't be verified as legal,...
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Job
Critical Essay by John Calvin
The Moral Development of Job and Arjuna
An Inexplicable Disaster Unfolds in the Living Room
