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    Book of Job: Human Sit Oral Notes

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    The document summarizes the Book of Job, which tells the story of Job, a righteous man who suffers loss and illness. It outlines the major characters, concepts, themes, and plot of the book. The plot involves God allowing the Adversary to test Job's faith by inflicting suffering upon him. Job's friends argue he must have sinned to deserve this, but Job maintains his innocence. In the end, God affirms Job and rebukes his friends for misunderstanding divine justice.

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    Book of Job: Human Sit Oral Notes

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    The document summarizes the Book of Job, which tells the story of Job, a righteous man who suffers loss and illness. It outlines the major characters, concepts, themes, and plot of the book. The plot involves God allowing the Adversary to test Job's faith by inflicting suffering upon him. Job's friends argue he must have sinned to deserve this, but Job maintains his innocence. In the end, God affirms Job and rebukes his friends for misunderstanding divine justice.

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    Notes on Book of Job in Tanakh, based on course themes of justice vs. revenge

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    The document summarizes the Book of Job, which tells the story of Job, a righteous man who suffers loss and illness. It outlines the major characters, concepts, themes, and plot of the book. The plot involves God allowing the Adversary to test Job's faith by inflicting suffering upon him. Job's friends argue he must have sinned to deserve this, but Job maintains his innocence. In the end, God affirms Job and rebukes his friends for misunderstanding divine justice.

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    Book of Job: Human Sit Oral Notes

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    Book of Job

    HUMAN SIT ORAL NOTES


    Course Themes

    Revenge
    sth personal; taking things into your own hands
    No rules governing response
    Justice
    3rd party is involved. Adjudicator. Divine law for theists
    Rules enforced by a legislative body
    Higher purpose than settling a personal feud
    Related to equality: 3rd party treats both parties equally / equitably
    3 qs / concerns that blur the line between the two:
    What if there is no 3rd party / arbitrator?
    Reliance upon justice is risky its out of your control; justice system may be corrupt
    Who is a just person? How does one become just?
    Book of Job

    Neviim: the prophets

    TaNaKh

    Torah: the 5 bks of Moses Kethuvim: the writings


    The Book of Job is part of this
    Book of Job: Major characters &
    important concepts
    Job: upright and righteous man who underwent tremendous suffering and
    loss. Despite this, Job remains faithful to God.
    Eliphaz the Temanite: first to respond to Job
    Bildad the Shuhite: echoes Eliphazs arguments
    Zophar the Naamathite: reluctant to speak; shortest speeches
    Elihu son of Barachel Buzite: youngest speaker
    Shaddai / Lord: God; creator of the world; all-powerful being
    Sheol: underworld; the land of deepest gloom; this is where people go
    when they die. A person must receive any goodness that they deserve in
    the world because theres no concept of heaven and hell in the text
    Theodicy: the vindication/justification of divine attributes such as justice in
    establishing or allowing the existence of evil.
    Theophany: the appearance of a deity to a human
    Book of Job: Guiding Questions

    Is Jobs purpose of life suffering?


    Is God accountable? Is God run by the moral order of the world?
    Are all creation concerned with justice?
    What are the available interpretations of suffering in the text?
    What are the sources of Jobs frustrations in the text?
    If divine justice is obscure / incomprehensible to everyone, whats
    the point of it for humans?
    Is it unjust for God to make Job go thru all this suffering just to win a
    dare? Or is He above and beyond Justice?
    Throughout the discourse, Job never doubts himself. What if his lack
    of self-doubt is a problem?
    Book of Job: General plotline
    Job was a wealthy man who lived with his family in the land of Uz
    Lord praises Job to the Adversary, calling Job blameless and upright
    Adversary challenges God that if Job loses his prosperity, he would cease to be
    righteous
    an experiment on righteousness with Job as the guinea pig
    God wants to prove that there is such a thing as disinterested piety piety for its own sake
    God allows Adversary to torment Job, but forbids him from taking Jobs life
    Over the course of one day, Job loses all his wealth and property. He mourns his loss
    but doesnt reproach God
    Then Adversary inflicts the most personal of afflictions skin disease on Job
    Even after that, Job says: Should we accept only good from God and not accept
    evil?
    His 3 friends come to console and comfort him. For 7 days and 7 nights, they
    grieve but never say a word: theyre trying to reconcile their beliefs about suffering
    with its manifestations in reality
    Book of Job: General plotline

    Job curses the day he was born. He wishes to be part of a great


    tragedy because that would elevate him
    what I feared has overtaken me even righteousness didnt
    guarantee his prosperity
    His own advice to others during their plight (Itll work out in the end,
    cuz youre righteous) is failing on him
    Crisis of Job isnt atheism but unintelligibility of divine justice
    He believes in justice but questions the reality of it
    Hes frustrated by the lack of reciprocity between the human &
    divine spheres
    Book of Job: General plotline
    Eliphaz: Suffering is due to retributive justice. Seek repentance, Job!
    Eliphaz: Suffering is a means of divine discipline. Its good for you, Job! Narrow,
    limited,
    1st Cycle

    Bildad: echoes the retributive justice argument and repeats Jobs human-
    words as if hes teaching him sth new centric
    Zophar: Job couldve had it far worse. He has received less suffering ideas
    than he deserves
    Job claims his innocence and that God has been unjust to him
    2nd cycle: speeches get shorter; everyone is getting tired & running
    out of patience
    Zophar claims prosperity of the wicked is short-lived, which Job rebuts
    by saying that many wicked people live and die in comfort
    Job loses hope for anything in life but death
    Without having wisdom, you offer advice his friends are of no help
    Book of Job: General plotline
    3rd cycle: Zophar stays quiet. Eliphaz rebukes Job for claiming innocence.
    Job (in response to Eliphazs accusations against him) says that he is willing
    to accept just punishment, if he has ever...
    Been deceitful
    Committed adultery
    Mistreated his servants
    Neglected the poor, widows, and fatherless
    Put his trust in gold / wealth (i.e. PR), or worshipped the heavenly bodies (he
    never denies Gods existence)
    Rejoiced over the demise of his enemies, or cursed them
    Not cared for the traveler
    Tried to hide his iniquity
    Book of Job: General plotline
    Job gets increasingly frustrated with his friends (lack of) explanation for human
    suffering. He appeals to God directly
    Wisdom cannot be found in the land of the living i.e. it can only be found via God
    Appearance of new speaker Elihu breaks the structure of symposium. Elihu is the
    youngest, keeps quiet all this time out of respect for elders
    Elihu contributes to the drama. He doesnt offer a new explanation for suffering
    God talks about His Power in His response to Job
    He contrasts His great power and wisdom with Job's limited ability and understanding
    Each creation has a logic that is not understandable / translatable to humans
    God places divine order in the world. Everything is exactly suited to its purpose.
    Every creation has all it needs from God eg. horse in battle, behemoths power,
    Levianthans strength that need may include suffering. This is Gods justice in the
    world
    God vindicates Job in the end, calling him truthful
    Friends were wrong in assuming that divine justice is contained within human
    understanding; Job was honest about not understanding it
    Book of Job

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