Showing posts with label Job. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Job. Show all posts
Monday, August 28, 2023

Job, Suffering, and God's purposes

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God submits his policies to the test, and Job's suffering begins. At this point, Job offers a policy criticism of his own; blessing the ...
Thursday, April 28, 2022

Vindication!

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However we evaluate the details of the epilogue, it is clear that Job’s response to God at the end of the second speech involves a retractio...
Friday, March 15, 2019

Job's sufferings

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One final consideration in this category that highlights a difference between Israel and the rest of the ancient Near East concerns the issu...
Monday, November 07, 2016

But I want easy answers!

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"The role of Job serves as paradigm for a righteous man faced with the human condition. As often noted, Job protests against easy answe...
Tuesday, July 12, 2016

The end of the journey

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At the end of his journey, Job returns to a place that is strangely similar to his departure point, the point from which his entire drama st...
Friday, July 08, 2016

Turnabout!

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Job has been led on a long path toward conversion; he has realized that he himself was wrong. All of a sudden, however, and in a completely...
Thursday, July 07, 2016

Everything? Yes, everything!

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God forces Job to realize that the horizon within which he acts as creator is much larger than the horizon of human culture. The creative ac...
Wednesday, July 06, 2016

But it says very plainly...or does it?

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It is not surprising that past research has left us with the impression that scholars tend to read more of their own theological opinions in...
Tuesday, July 05, 2016

Job doesn't get an answer

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Is this complex answer even an answer ? Job had asked why God allowed him to suffer so greatly. Why him ? Is this not a sign of indiscrimina...
Monday, July 04, 2016

The use of metaphor

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The Old Testament makes use of a host of metaphorical images to describe God’s presence in the world indirectly. The most important of thes...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

It's beyond that even!

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“Nothing earthly is able to envision appropriately God, resulting in the paradox that the God of the Old Testament is not invisible, but is ...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Entitlement thinking

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Job does make one theological mistake, however: from his own high ethical standing, he concludes that he is entitled to a certain treatment...
Tuesday, June 28, 2016

Ignore the text, then

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The concept that God educates human beings through suffering, that Job’s illness is a constructive didactic measure, has moved to the center...
Monday, June 27, 2016

To whom do you speak?

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The frequent passages in which Job addresses God as “you” (see 7:12–21; 9:28– 32; 10:2–18; 13:22–27; 14:13–20) are of high theological impor...
Friday, June 24, 2016

Lament

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As much as the idea of disputare de deo is rejected, the book of Job continues to advocate a form of speech transformed through suffering: ...
Thursday, June 23, 2016

Theology or Pseudo-Theology?

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The book of Job does not promote silence about God because we cannot say anything about him. Otherwise, this book would never have been writ...
Tuesday, June 21, 2016

God is...

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Within the context of the Hebrew Bible, the book of Job thus primarily contradicts the God of justice as presented by the prophets: God, as ...
Monday, June 20, 2016

About that prologue...

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The prologue of the book of Job is shaped like a fairy tale in order to prevent us from using it as the Archimedean point from which to set ...
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Friday, June 17, 2016

Nobody mentions that...

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Whatever thoughts the friends entertain may be part of a usual repertoire of theological insights into the Job problem, but the prologue sta...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

That's too harsh!

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I believe that we can make a strong and much more plausible case for the opposite hypothesis: the combination of the proleptic solution to t...