Making Sense of the Book of Job https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/religion-holidays/2023/04/making-sense-of-the-book-of-job/

April 24, 2023 | Jon D. Levenson
About the author: Jon D. Levenson is the Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies at Harvard University and the author of Inheriting Abraham: The Legacy of the Patriarch in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Library of Jewish Ideas; Princeton University Press).

Perhaps no other biblical book is as linguistically difficult, weighted with as much theological meaning, and able to engender as much interpretive debate as Job. In dialogue with J.J. Kimche, Jon D. Levenson provides his insights into the book, from the rationale of Satan’s “bet” with God, to the possible significance of the characters’ unusual names, to the perils of reading the text through a modern lens, to the meaning of God’s mysterious “answer” to Job’s question. (Audio, 69 minutes.)

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