{"product_id":"on-job-volume-2","title":"On Job, Volume 2","description":"Even prior to his death on 15 November 1280, the Dominican master Albert of Lauingen was legendary for his erudition. He was widely recognized for the depth and breadth of his learning in the philosophical disciplines as well as in the study of God, earning him the titles \u003ci\u003eDoctor universalis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDoctor expertus\u003c\/i\u003e. Moreover, his authoritative teaching merited him the moniker Magnus, an appellation bestowed on no other man of the High Middle Ages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis volume contains the second half of Albert the Great's commentary \u003ci\u003eOn Job\u003c\/i\u003e (on chs. 22-42), translated into English for the first time; a translation of the first half of the work appeared in an earlier volume of the Fathers of the Church, Mediaeval Continuation series (Vol. 19, 2019). Albert completed \u003ci\u003eSuper Iob\u003c\/i\u003e in 1272 or 1274, when he was over seventy years old, at the Dominican Kloster of Heilige Kreuz in Cologne, where, as lector emeritus of the Order, he likely lectured on this profound biblical book. Significantly, Albert may have been inspired to produce On Job by his most famous student, Thomas Aquinas, who had written his own Joban commentary, the \u003ci\u003eExpositio super Iob ad litteram\u003c\/i\u003e, while serving as conventual lector at San Domenico in Orvieto from 1261 to 1264. Yet Albert occupies a unique position in the history of the interpretation of Job: he is the first and only exegete in history who explicitly reads the whole book as a debate in the mode of an academic or scholastic disputation among Job and his friends about divine providence concerning human affairs. Albert understands God, in the final chapters of Job, to determine the disputed question in favor of Job and against his friends, namely declaring that He (i.e., God) rules human life with no consideration of human works, but rather that divine governance is dissimilar to every mode of human rule.","brand":"The Catholic University of America Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55287614407000,"sku":"9780813239408","price":44.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780813239408.jpg?v=1778671860","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/on-job-volume-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}