About the Author

The Author: Duck-Woo Nam is Pastor of Korean Baptist Church in Sherwood, Arkansas.

Reviews

I would encourage readers from beginning to advanced levels of knowledge about the Book of Job to use Duck-Woo Nam's book, which offers much information and provokes new thinking about Job. Commentary on the Book of Job will never be finished, but Nam guides the reader into major aspects of the book and its challenge to faith. (Marvin E. Tate, Senior Professor of Old Testament Interpretation, The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky) This work tackles a subject too often lost in the flurry of composition and rhetorical research: what is the theology for the Book of Job? In un-packing the answers, Duck-Woo Nam has brought most of the book under scrutiny although focusing on one enigmatic text in the final chapter. Nam's answer to the enigma of how Job spoke better of God than did his friends is that Job spoke 'constructively' about God, not about him as much as to him, not in terms of conventional understandings of justice, but in terms of a 'justice' that entailed power and freedom. Nam is on top of vast scholarly research. Thankfully his work deals with 'theology' - here narrowly defined, but rich. This book is a contribution to the discipline of biblical studies as well as to the life of Yahweh followers. (Elmer A. Martens, Professor Emeritus of Old Testament, Mennonite Brethren Biblical Seminary, Fresno, California)