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Ngwa, Kenneth Numfor

The Hermeneutics of the 'Happy' Ending in Job 42:7-17

Series:Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 354

    Aims and Scope

    The hermeneutics employed in this work is partly referred to as hindsight hermeneutics, and upholds the resonance and dissonance between the Epilogue of the Book of Job and the preceding sections. Within the Theophany-epilogue continuum, rebuke and approval, retribution and its suspension, divine transcendence and accessibility are all held together. The dramatically discordant traditions in the preceding section are not interpreted as competing alternatives but as complementary possibilities for understanding the nature of the divine-human relationship and responding to the threat and reality of chaos and suffering.

    Supplementary Information

    Revised Ph.D. dissertation under the supervision of Professor C. L. Seow, at Princeton Theological Seminary, N. J. in 2004. Kenneth Numfor Ngwa is now visiting Assistant Professor of Old Testament at Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana/USA.

    "This book is like an archaeological dig. All is laid out in meticulous detail, and we are amazed that there could be so much of value in so few verses."
    Anthony Saville in: NewDirections April 2006

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