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| Title: | Providence in the Book of Job (HB @ PB Price)
: The Search for God's Mind |
| Author: | Jeremy I Pfeffer |
| ISBN: | 1845192257 : 9781845192259 |
| Illustrations: | illus |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Size: | 152x229mm |
| Pages: | 212 |
| Weight: | .456 Kg. |
| Published: | Sussex Academic Press - April 2005 |
| List Price: | 19.95 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Biblical studies; criticism & exegesis: Judaism |
Discusses the origins of the Book of Job, the key personalities in its narrative (God, Satan and Job), and the workings of Providence as reflected in Scripture and Talmudic sources; A critical presentation of the sense of the Book of Job as it appears in the commentaries of R Saadiah Gaon, R Abraham Ibn Ezra, the Rashi School of exegetes, Maimonides, Nahmanides, Gersonides, R Joseph Caspi, the Zohar and Kabbalists, Rabbeinu Bachya Asher, R Zerahiah Garcian, R Simeon ben Zemah Duran and R Meir Lebush Malbim; Much of the material has never before appeared in the English language.
The Origins of the Book of Job; The Personalities in the Book of Job; The Workings of Providence; Mediaeval Commentaries on the Book of Job; R. Simeon ben Zemah Duran's Commentary on the Book of Job.
