Re: [asa] On Job

Jonah and Job are different and are best seen as non-historical.

Michael
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Don Winterstein
  To: asa@calvin.edu ; Carol or John Burgeson
  Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 9:32 PM
  Subject: Re: [asa] On Job

  Would you assign Jonah similar status? Then, how about Elijah calling down fire on the captains of fifty? Once we get started, how do we know where to stop?

  Don

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Carol or John Burgeson
    To: asa@calvin.edu
    Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2006 6:37 AM
    Subject: [asa] On Job

    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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Received on Wed Oct 4 17:11:23 2006