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The Eschatological Significance of Human Suffering In The Old Testament And The Dead Sea Scrolls1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2009

A. R. C. Leaney
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The purpose of this paper is to argue that the Old Testament and its cognate literature teach about human suffering something usually neglected by those who study this great problem: that human suffering is almost always connected with the life of a community, and sometimes with the creation of a community, under the hand of God.

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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , September 1963 , pp. 286 - 296
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Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1963

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1 A paper read before the Society for Old Testament Study at Dublin on 19th July, 1961.