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The Book of Job: Suffering, and the Meaning of Life
Saturday, February 21 @ 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
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Job Chapter 1-2 – Introduction, Job’s sufferings, loses his possessions, his children and his health. Special features in the Hebrew Bible.
Job Chapters 3 ‒ Job’s response to his suffering and his three friends. Examining the assumptions about sin and suffering.
Job Chapters 4-14 ‒ Understanding the three rounds of debate in the book of Job. Questions concerning God’s divine action or non-intervention.
Job Chapter 15‒26 ‒ Suffering, death and Job’s redeemer
Job Chapters 27 and 37 ‒ Job speaks a total of ten times. Job’s longing for God and the question of righteousness. The unique role of Elihu and the rhetoric of his words.
Job chapters 38-40 ‒ Job finally encounters the Lord in the tempest/whirlwind and the Lord responds to Job.
