Wednesday Bible Study: Yadda yadda yadda

 S í, estoy en Puerto Rico. As this endless vapid discourse meanders on, I will just say that although the Book of Job is as far as we know the earliest work in the Judeo-Christian tradition to deal with the theodicy problem, it ultimately fails to do so. The three comforters and Elihu all basically say the same thing, in the end: Job must have done something to deserve this, either because all humans are sinners or he transgressed in some particular way. Job says he is righteous and that God appears to him arbitrary and inscrutable. Sometimes the other four characters more or less agree with that, but still, there has to be a reason. What I have just said is essentially all that gets said, over and over again in endless circles.We, the readers, know the truth: that this is all because of a bet God made with Satan, so it pretty much is just happening on a whim. Once we get through more of this dreck, God will show up and say, what the hell do you know and I ' m not going to explain myself. Then, for no particular reason, Job gets healed and he gets everything back, which of course does not often happen in reality. End of story. Some scholars think that the prologue and epilogue were the original book, and that most of the stuff in between was added later. I don ' t know Hebrew, but apparently the style of the dialogues and monologues is affected, which is certainly how it comes across in translation. This is, in other words, a literary hack indulging himself w...
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