Habakkuk: A New Translation With Introduction and Commentary (Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries)
Description
The book of Habakkuk (one of the twelve Minor Prophets) is an intensely personal testimonyplayed out against a highly political backdrop. Writing as his land and his fellow Israelites were being invaded and plundered by the Chaldeans, Habakkuk questions God’s actions with a passion equal to Job’s. Habakkuk wonders, how can a God who is just and compassionate allow his people to be slaughtered? In trying to punish the Israelites and right the wrongs of his people, why did God choose the savage, infinitely more wicked Chaldeans as his instrument? The puzzles Habakkuk contemplates ...
ISBN(s)
0385083963, 9780385083966
