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Fellowship with Christ’s Suffering: A Critical and Orthodox Interpretation of the Book of Job: Commentary on the Masoretic Text, Vulgate, and Septuagint
Patrick Craig Truglia, in delving through every extant textual tradition of the Book of Job provides a novel, but surprisingly traditional, analysis which brings to light how God's purpose for human suffering is salvific, bringing one into closer communion with Christ. Instead of slavishly following previous commentaries, Fellowship With Christ's Suffering uses both Sacred Tradition and textual criticism to discover new depths of meaning, bringing to light the Orthodox soteriology and Triadology previously unappreciated in the Old Testament. Combining modern textual analysis with a Patristically-styled typological exegesis, this bold fusion of new and old provides a path forward for future Biblical commentators, reviving the exegetical methodology of Saints Jerome, Chrysostom, and Augustine.
530 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 7, 2024
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June 27, 2025
An excellent and exhaustive analysis of the entire text of the book of Job. This is the book I always WISHED I'd had all those years rereading Job and wondering what to make of it. Now it makes sense why it always comforted me even when I didn't understand it.
The only downside of this book might be that you want brevity, but honestly even then I'd recommend it. It's powerful getting the textual analysis of the Masoretic, Vulgate, and Septuagint side by side.
Most important, as Craig repeatedly notes, this book contains the depth of the Orthodox Christian spiritual tradition, the whole gospel and the message of Theosis, in one text.
I simply cannot recommend this book enough. I'll be mulling over this book and putting it to use when talking to others... probably for the rest of my life.
If you have any interest in the book of Job, or finding the patristic view of salvation (theosis) in the Old Testament, this is THE book.
The only downside of this book might be that you want brevity, but honestly even then I'd recommend it. It's powerful getting the textual analysis of the Masoretic, Vulgate, and Septuagint side by side.
Most important, as Craig repeatedly notes, this book contains the depth of the Orthodox Christian spiritual tradition, the whole gospel and the message of Theosis, in one text.
I simply cannot recommend this book enough. I'll be mulling over this book and putting it to use when talking to others... probably for the rest of my life.
If you have any interest in the book of Job, or finding the patristic view of salvation (theosis) in the Old Testament, this is THE book.
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