Didn't you leave something out? He was given asylum by T*^%p.

Whoa! Get it and you can do a proper Geordie.

😂

Add Caravan to my list.

Deep Purple
UFO
Genesis
Mott

Magnificent.

Lovely essay.

Mine too!

2/2 Why do you think the Jewish tradition has such a radically different understanding of it? And why do you think that Judaism has a prominent minority tradition throughout its literature: i.e. every orthodox rabbinical interpretation is represented with the minority positions *on the same page*?

1/2 Doesn't Christianity's revisionism with regard to the Hebrew text bother you at all? Doesn't the neatness and tidiness of it all strike you as wish fulfillment, employing an alien (gentile -- Greco-Roman)hermeneutic? (cont'd)

2/2 ...an exemplar of our own conception of Justice. And to remind everyone that bad things happen to good people, and good things to bad people, which raises questions about God's attributes.

Its value is as a fable. Once Job is a real guy with "a little faith, etc." it loses all potency.

1/2 Job raises a number of very serious problems that Christianity endeavors to solve by pushing Justice off into the afterlife, but all this does is create new and even more difficult problems.

The value of a text like Job is to put pressure on the idea of a Supreme Being that is supposed to be...

The idea that it’s some great reaffirmation of faith is only plausible if you ignore a good part of the text and especially, God’s unhinged and tyrannical speech at the end.

Of course not. My point was that the whole thrust of the reading is wrong. Job is not a text advancing orthodoxy. It is radical and it’s message should be understood alongside Koheleth. If you really want to understand Job, read it through the lens of Kafka’s “The Trial.”

Ah, I understand.

What? Just one? 😂