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: ...

Too true

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From the ASOR Program Abstracts: If a terracotta figurine has a head, however schematically rendered, combined with a pair of circular prot...
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...
Tuesday, June 14, 2016

It's all there, from the beginning

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When we interpret the prologue within the context of the rest of the book, we realize quickly that the prologue contains important theologic...
Monday, June 13, 2016

Sure, that's true, but what does it mean?

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In order to deal with ancient texts such as the prologue of the book of Job, scholars tend to refer to ancient cosmology that imagines a hea...
Friday, June 10, 2016

Not coherent. So, what's new?

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The narratives examined in this study do not form one coherent story, but rather several ones with a wide spectrum of variations, deletions ...

The divine economy

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Scripture is not an end in itself. Scripture and its interpretation are part of a larger divine economy; Scripture is a witness to God’s act...
Thursday, June 09, 2016

It's by grace

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The identity of Jesus within Scripture is never finally interpreted because it is textually mediated. Second, because it is textually mediat...

New garments

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The giving of new garments also has a legal significance. The donning of clean garments was the final ceremony in trials such as judicial or...
Wednesday, June 08, 2016

So that's how it works!

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The Marduk-Ea dialogue seeks to ensure that the incantation of the earthly exorcist comes directly from the gods. When the exorcist declares...

Self, meet God...

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Scripture reveals not only God to us, but us to ourselves, so that we see our need for God. Due to this soteriological context, Paul is not ...
Monday, June 06, 2016

To what end knowledge?

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For Wesley, the knowledge and love of God is the end for which humanity is created, the experience of which is happiness. The renewal of the...