Re: [asa] On Job

OTOH, Ezekiel 14:20 and James 5:11 seem to suggest Job was a real person, as
does Job 42:16 which gives his age, so calling the whole story "ALICE IN
WONDERLAND" seems to raise all sorts of thorny questions about inspiration,
scriptural authority, and the objective reality of the faith. "Literal"
history might be the wrong genre, but mere "allegory" seems only to make
things curioser and curioser, as Alice might say.

On 10/4/06, Robert Schneider <rjschn39@bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
> 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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> ----- Original Message -----
> 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
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> > Absolutely , there is no historicity in Job, but it is still the best
> > thing in the OT on suffering
> >
> > Michael
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Carol or John Burgeson" <burgytwo@juno.com>
> > To: <asa@calvin.edu>
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 2:37 PM
> > 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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