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2025 ESV updates considered

Posted on Friday, 14th February, 2025 by martin

The news at the moment is that there are some updates to the ESV (see the list here). The ESV is, in my opinion, one of the poorer modern translations available, primarily because of its tendency to use outdated English, but there are also other problems with it. This post will not be a detailed…

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how long did Job’s suffering last?

Posted on Friday, 19th January, 2024 by martin

Job suffered terribly at the hands of God. He lost his possessions, his health, and his children. By the end of his story as told in the Bible his health has been restored, his wealth has been restored, he fathers more children, and he lives a long life. But how long was his period of…

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“i know that my redeemer lives” — what is Job’s hope?

Posted on Friday, 23rd September, 2022Friday, 23rd September, 2022 by martin

Job 19:25–27 contains what are perhaps the most famous words of Job. They are included in Handel’s Messiah and found in other Christian music as well. For many, these words by Job are understood as an indication that Job’s faith continues despite all that has happened to him: Job’s redeemer is God and Job, fundamentally,…

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job’s wife

Posted on Sunday, 8th February, 2015Thursday, 9th June, 2016 by martin

February 8th is International Septuagint Day. In celebration, this year I thought I’d post one of the two major differences between the LXX and MT in the Book of Job, the details of Job’s wife. For those unfamiliar with her, this is all we hear of and from Job’s wife in the MT: ותאמר לו…

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Was Elihu Right?

Posted on Sunday, 11th January, 2015Wednesday, 14th January, 2015 by martin

JESOT 3.2 is now live and includes my article entitled “Was Elihu Right?” In it I discuss the contribution of Elihu in the Book of Job, so check it out: http://jesot.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/M.-Shields-JESOT-3.2.pdf The “prequel” to this article (entitled “Malevolent of Mysterious”) is also available for download from Tyndale Bulletin: http://www.tyndalehouse.com/Bulletin/61=2010/5%20Shields.pdf

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david penchansky — understanding wisdom literature

Posted on Tuesday, 22nd May, 2012Saturday, 9th March, 2013 by martin

Eerdmans have recently published a new volume by David Penchansky entitled Understanding Wisdom Literature. This is a book which examines the biblical and post-biblical wisdom literature and raises questions and issues which are sometimes uncomfortable but are nonetheless (or perhaps I should say “are thus”) important. Below is my review of Penchansky’s book. [scribd id=94409490…

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malevolent or mysterious? god’s character in the prologue of job

Posted on Sunday, 10th October, 2010Sunday, 10th October, 2010 by martin

My latest article on Job will appear in the next volume of Tyndale Bulletin with the above title. Here’s the synopsis: Readers of the Book of Job often believe that the prologue reveals the entire reason for Job’s loss and suffering and so the full background for all that transpires throughout the remainder of the…

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job’s perfection and paul’s objection

Posted on Wednesday, 3rd February, 2010Tuesday, 27th April, 2010 by martin

Job, we are told in the opening verses of the book which bears his name, was ‏תם וישר וירא אלהים וסר מרע — “blameless and just, fearing God.” Much of the point of the book rests upon the veracity of this assertion. Job did not deserve to suffer as he did. David Clines claims that…

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the prayer of job?

Posted on Wednesday, 4th November, 2009Wednesday, 2nd December, 2009 by martin

Andrew Barry has suggested that Job 42:7, which reads: חרה אפי בך ובשני רעיך כי לא דברתם אלי נכונה כעבדי איוב ought to be rendered thus: My anger burns against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken to me what is right, as my servant Job has. The significant difference to…

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does the story of job reflect a national tragedy?

Posted on Tuesday, 20th October, 2009 by martin

The book of Job contains no explicit dating information and so determining its precise historical context is difficult. Although the implied date of the story is widely acknowledged to be in patriarchal times (when wealth was measured in goods and chattels, where people reputedly lived well past 100 years of age, and where there was…

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