Book of Job and the Invention of Faith

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This course will explore how the Book of Job transforms the Hebrew Bible’s concept of God (from a large-but-finite and explicable deity to an infinite and fundamentally inexplicable one) and therefore, the proper behavior of both humans and God in the relationship they share and the possibility of a covenant between them.

Texts
  • Hebrew Bible
  • New Testament
TAUGHT: AUTUMN 2009