OT061-712 - Interpreting and Applying Job

  • 2,784 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 7
    AQF level
  • Category advanced unit
    C
  • old testamentUnit Discipline

Prerequisites

24cps OT

Set Text

This unit counts towards the "set text" unit requirements of courses.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

Demonstrate Functional knowledge and understanding of the interpretation and application of the Book of Job

B. Be able to

1. Discuss recent scholarship on the interpretation and application of the Book of Job
2. Demonstrate skill in utilising scholarship in the interpretation and application of the Book of Job
3. Present Critical evidence-based perspectives on the interpretation and application of the Book of Job

C. Be in a position to

1. Applying Functional perspectives and skills from ‘Interpreting and Applying Job to ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective practitioner

Content

1. Introduction to Job
2. ANE wisdom
3. Themes
4. Nature of God
5. Suffering
6. Theodicy

  • Why do the righteous suffer?
  • Why do the unrighteous suffer?
  • Why do the wicked prosper?

7. Comfort
8. Job in Christian context

Set Readings

This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.


Belcher, Richard P. Job: The Mystery of Suffering and God’s Sovereignty (Fearn: Christian Focus, 2017).
Brettler, Marc Zvi, ‘(Divine) Silence Is Golden: A New Reading of the Prologue of Job’, Interested Readers: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honor of David J. A. Clines (Atlanta: SBL, 2013), 19-26.
Clines, David J. A. and Bruce M. Metzger, Job 38 - 42, WBC (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011).
Currid, John D. Why Do I Suffer? Suffering and the Sovereignty of God (Fearn: Christian Focus, 2004).
Fisher, Loren R., The Many Voices of Job (Eugene: Cascade Books, 2009).
Hartley, John E. The Book of Job, NICOT (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988).
Jackson, David R., ‘Cosmic Bully or God of Grace? The Book of Job as Māšāl’, WTJ 78 (2016), 65-73.
Jones, Hywel R. Job, EPSC (Darlington: EP, 2007).
Longman, Tremper, III, The Fear of the Lord is Wisdom (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2017).
Longman, Tremper. Job (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2012).
O’Donnell, Douglas Sean. The Beginning and End of Wisdom (Wheaton: Crossway, 2011).
Walton, John H. Job, NAC (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012).
Walton, John H. and Longman, Tremper, How to Read Job (Leicester: IVP, 2015).
Tsevat, Matitiahu, ‘The Meaning of the Book of Job’, Sitting with Job: Selected Studies on the Book of Job, ed. Roy Zuck (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1992), 189-218.
Von Rad, Gerhard, Wisdom in Israel (Nashville: Abingdon, 1972).

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