"e;Look At Me and Be Appalled"e;. 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: "e;What Provokes You that You Keep on Talking?"e;; (3) Job and the Priests: "e;Look At Me and Be Appalled;"e; (4) Traumatizing Job: "e;God Has Worn Me Out;"e; (5) Out of the Whirlwind: "e;Can You Thunder with A Voice Like God's?"e;; (6) Preaching Job and Job's God: "e;Listen Carefully to My Words;"e; (7) Epilogue: "e;All's Well That Ends Well"e; ... 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 "e;for no reason"e;?