Learning Through Suffering: The Educational Value of Suffering in the New Testament and in Its Milieu - Paperback

by Charles H. Talbert (Author)

From the various biblical explanations of suffering, this volume chooses to focus on one: suffering sometimes possesses an educational value. It explores the differing versions of this view in Paul, James, 1 Peter, Hebrews, and Luke-Acts, and sets these Christian perspectives against the backdrop of similar explanations in Jewish and Greco-Roman cultures.

Author Biography

Charles H. Talbert (PhD, Vanderbilt University) is Distinguished Professor of Religion at Baylor University. A former editor of the Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series, he is the author or editor of more than two dozen books.