Friendship in the Book of Job
Art, Context, and Theology from an African Perspective
- Biblical Studies & Commentaries
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2024
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Publisher's Description
Friendship is an important aspect of human society and a virtue that lies at the heart of sub-Saharan African societies. This study explores the art of friendship in the book of Job and how it resonates in the sub-Saharan African setting. As a wisdom tradition, the story offers a critique of friendship and of appropriate action with reference to particular circumstances, institutions, and persons, showing how the speeches, actions, and inactions of the characters inform friendship identities. Readers are exposed to proverbs, parables, and sayings from African communities, which show the richness of African culture and ethos. The similarities and differences between Western and African traditional worldviews and views of friendship come out clearly in the communal values of relatedness, loyalty, collaboration, empowerment, and goodwill.
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“This book provides a fresh reading of the book of Job and covers a huge gap in African scholarship on friendship. Its application of African understandings of friendship onto the book of Job, which has been predominantly interpreted around the theme of suffering, breaks new ground in the study of both friendship in Africa and the book of Job.”
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