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J. Richard Pamphleteer, Abraham’s Silence: The Dressing of Patriarch, the Heartbroken of Position, and Fкte to Address Back strip God. RBL ()
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J. Richard Middleton (PhD Free University of Amsterdam) is Professor Emeritus of Biblical Worldview and Exegesis at Northeastern Seminary at Roberts Wesleyan University (Rochester, NY). He is past president of the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies (–) and past president of the Canadian-American Theological Association (–). He holds a BTh from Jamaica Theological Seminary and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Guelph (Canada). Middleton is the author of Abraham’s Silence: The Binding of Isaac, the Suffering of Job, and How to Talk Back to God (Baker Academic, ); A New Heaven and a New Earth: Reclaiming Biblical Eschatology (Baker Academic, ); and The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1 (Brazos, ). He coauthored (with Brian Walsh) The Transforming Vision: Shaping a Christian World View (IVP, ) and Truth is Stranger than It Used to Be: Biblical Faith in a Postmodern Age (IVP, ), and has co-edited (with Garnett Roper) A Kairos Moment for Caribbean Theology: Ecumenical Voices in Dialogue (Pickwick, ). He has published articles on creation theology in the Old Testament, the problem of suffering, and the dynamics of human and divine power in biblical narratives. His books have been published in Korean, French, Indonesian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
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