Job

Thoughts on the book of Job

Mon, 15/07/2013 - 16:07 -- James Oakley

Coming across through a few old files on the computer, I found something I'd written on Job - ooh, back in 2007. At least, I think I wrote it. If someone else recognises this as their thoughts and writing on Job, I apologise. And I thank you.

Anyway - I wrote about how easy it is to misunderstand the book, and to draw conclusions that the book does not support:

Here are 4 really quite common ways in which the book of Job is misunderstood.

Blog Category: 

Job, the man of sorrows

Wed, 22/08/2007 - 08:57 -- James Oakley

Job is one of those books of the Bible that I still feel I don’t really know what to do with. I’m not happy with treatments of it that read it as if the bulk of the book were a paranthesis. But I can’t do better. So I keep reading it, to see what I can learn.

Blog Category: 
Subscribe to Job
Additional Terms