Abraham`s Silence – The Binding of Isaac, the Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God

J. Richard Middleton (PhD, Free University of Amsterdam) is professor of biblical worldview and exegesis at Northeastern Seminary in Rochester, New York. He is the author of The Liberating Image and the award-winning A New Heaven and a New Earth. He coauthored the bestsellers Truth Is Stranger Than It Used to Be and The Transforming Vision. Middleton's books have been published in Korean, French, Indonesian, Spanish, and Portuguese. He has served as president of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies and as president of the Canadian-American Theological Association.

• ContentsIntroduction: Does Abraham's Silence Matter?Part 1: Models of Vigorous Prayer in the Bible1. Voices from the Ragged Edge2. God's Loyal OppositionPart 2: Making Sense of the Book of Job3. The Question of Appropriate Speech4. Does God Come to Bury Job or to Praise Him?Part 3: Unbinding the Aqedah from the Straitjacket of Tradition5. Is It Permissible to Criticize Abraham or God?6. Reading Rhetorical Signals in the Aqedah and Job7. Did Abraham Pass the Test?Conclusion: The Gritty Spirituality of LamentIndexes

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