Learning Through Suffering

The Educational Value of Suffering in the New Testament and in Its Milieu

af Charles H. Talbert

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 perspectives against the backdrop of similar explanations in Jewish and Greco-Roman cultures.