The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
19. Is the Book of Job a Theodicy?
The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes - Philippe Guillaume
Philippe Guillaume [+]
University of Berne
Philippe Guillaume is Lecturer at the University of Berne. His latest publications are A History of Biblical Israel co-authored with Ernst Axel Knauf (Equinox, 2016) and Deuteronomy in the Making, Studies in the Production of Debarim, edited with Diana Edelman, Benedetta Rossi and Kåre Berge (De Gruyter, 2021).
Description
The world is unfair, even for Job, the perfect hero of the biblical book named after him. The divine speeches that vindicate and silence Job explain that God is, indeed, all powerful but not necessarily just and fair.