Hey - you're perfectly welcome to bring up old topics. I just find it humorous that it's been so long in the archives, and is just now being pulled out again.
It was an unresolved question.
Also, Sooner told me to return and report.
Sleeping in EQ
04-09-2008 11:50 AM
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Originally Posted by pelagius
(Post 184599)
It is easy to pick on Job with some funny one liners but I really think many people miss the point of the book. Job taken as a whole provides very important theological balance to other books in the Old Testament. It provides particular balance to the "Wisdom Literature" in the OT such as proverbs where Retributive Theology is the primary theological viewpoint. Job provides a remarkable counterpoint to the "Wisdom Literature." People get hung up on the fact that the narrative is told in a very stylistic way. But the highly stylized narrative adds to the punch of the dramatic theological counterpunch. Job is a masterpiece.
Word.
Archaea
04-09-2008 02:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ
(Post 206477)
Word.
Pelagius and you make Religion fun here. If we could just get Dr. Mauss, Dr. Stewart, Dr. Peters and Dr. Flake here, we could be complete.
