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Introduction: Stephen Mitchell's The Book of Job |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / FEATURED BOOK: Stephen Mitchell's The Book of Job |
| Author: Editor |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 12/1/1987 |
| Size: 340 Words, 2,052 Characters |
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Few books of the Bible have had the enduring impact upon believers and nonbelievers alike as the Book of Job. Its combination of profound dialogues and majestic, natural images commands our attention, not the least so because of the strangely recognizable...
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...alternate readings of Job, argues that the book represents a rejection of the notion of redemptive suffering (p. 383). Finally, literary critic Lionel Abel considers the merits of the book of job as a form of tragedy (p. 394). The central panels of each of Williams Blake's twenty-one renown illustrations for the Book of job have been reproduced here in the order in which they originally appeared.
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