Now My Eyes Have Seen You

Series Preface
Author’s Preface
Abbreviations

1. Speaking What Is Right
2. An Advocate In Heaven?
3. The Tragic Creator
4. The Raging Sea
5. The Shadowlands
6. Yahweh, Mot And Behemoth
7. The Ancient Prince Of Hell
8. Drawing Out Leviathan
9. The Vision Glorious

Appendix: Job And Cannanite Myth
The Significance Of Ugarit For Old Testament Studies
The Relevance Of The Baal Sagas
Theological Significance

Bibliography
Index Of Modern Authors
Index Of Scriptural References
Index Of Ancient Sources

Additional Info
‘Now my eyes have seen you.” (Job 42:5)

Few biblical texts are more daunting, and yet more fascinating, than the book of Job-and few have been the subject of such diverse interpretation.

For Robert Fyall, the mystery of God’s ways and the appalling evil and suffering in the world are at the heart of Job’s significant contribution to the canon of Scripture. This New Studies in Biblical Theology volume offers a holistic reading of Job, with particular reference to its depiction of creation and evil, and finds significant clues to its meaning in the striking imagery it uses.

Fyall takes seriously the literary and artistic integrity of the book of Job, as well as its theological profundity. He concludes that it is not so much about suffering per se as about creation, providence and knowing God, and how-n the crucible of suffering-these are to be understood. He encourages us to listen to this remarkable literature, to be moved by it, and to see its progress from shrieking protest to repentence and vision.

Addressing key issues in biblical theology, the works comprising New Studies in Biblical Theology are creative attempts to help Christians better understand their Bibles. The NSBT series is edited by D. A. Carson, aiming to simultaneously instruct and to edify, to interact with current scholarship and to point the way ahead.