'Look At Me and Be Appalled'. Essays on Job, Theology, and Ethics

This collection of eighteen essays addresses critical theological and ethical issues in the book of Job: (1) Prologue: From Eden to Uz; (2) Job and His Friends: 'What Provokes You that You Keep on Talking?'; (3) Job and the Priests: 'Look At Me and Be Appalled;' (4) Traumatizing Job: 'God Has Worn Me Out;' (5) Out of the Whirlwind: 'Can You Thunder with A Voice Like God's?'; (6) Preaching Job and Job's God: 'Listen Carefully to My Words;' (7) Epilogue: 'All's Well That Ends Well' ... or Is it? The lead essay raises the question that lingers over the entire book: What are we to think of a God who is complicit in the death of seven sons and three daughters 'for no reason'?