The Wildness of Creation: An Interpretation of the Voice from the Whirlwind in Job

The significance of God’s speaking through the voice from the whirlwind and Job’s subsequent repentance has often been interpreted as a scolding by God for questioning divine providence and/or as the assertion of inscrutable mystery. This paper offers an alternative hermeneutics consonant with an op...

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Main Author: Nikkel, David Henry 1952- (Author)
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Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2016
In: Open theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 849–854
Further subjects:B Elihu
B whirlwind
B Occupation
B Wilderness
B Leviathan
B Behemoth
B wildness
B divine governance
B Freedom
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