Re: [asa] On Job

As I often tell my NT students, if you confine truth to what "actually
happened in history," you miss most of the truths of the Bible.

Bob

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From: "Michael Roberts" <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>; "Carol or John Burgeson" <burgytwo@juno.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 11:13 AM
Subject: Re: [asa] On Job

> Absolutely , there is no historicity in Job, but it is still the best
> thing in the OT on suffering
>
> Michael
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> From: "Carol or John Burgeson" <burgytwo@juno.com>
> To: <asa@calvin.edu>
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> Subject: [asa] On Job
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>
>> Vernon commented: "Can such passages as Job 1:6-12 =
>> and 2:1-7 be 'interpreted' to mean something different from their =
>> account of actual meetings, actual discussions and actual consequences?
>> =
>> And if, in your view they must be accepted as real events, what might we
>> =
>> usefully glean from them?"
>>
>> The most reasonable interpretation of Job is that it is a morality play.
>> To consider it as sober factual history is ludicrous. Sort of like
>> believing ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
>>
>> Burgy
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