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A 6 page research paper/essay that relates why Job should be admired and the themes and meanings of Job’s story for modern life. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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world, as it challenges the ability of people to have faith in "Gods providence and agency" (Richard, 2003, p. 891). The Book of Job is attractive to modern readers precisely
because it addresses the problem of evil, as it pictures the evil that assailed Job as resulting from a wager, a test, concocted by Satan and agreed to by God
in order to test the steadfastness of Jobs faith. Job loses his wealth, is afflicted by disease and, worst of all, all of his children die in a natural calamity,
yet he never takes the advise of his wife and curses God. He remains steadfast and God restores what he lost. In so doing, Job presents a model for dealing
with loss, misfortune and betrayal by friends and relatives that offers guidance for the modern age. The origins of the Book of Job are vague, G.K. Chesterton posits that
this ancient saga developed slowly over the fullness of time and remarks that it is only the people of the modern era who attach significant important to the precise date
and author of a work as the importance of this aspect of the work is "entirely the creation of the almost insane individualism of modern times" (Chesterton, 1997). Ozick (1998)
substantiates this position by indicating that the origins of Job can be found in folk poetry, but also believes that the beauty of the verse must have originated with an
unnamed Hebrew poet of considerable skill. Both scholars may be correct in that a Hebrew poet could have been drawing on an oral legacy. Historically, there are multiple
scholarly interpretations of the trials of Job that span the centuries. Some of been optimistic in their interpretation. For example, Gregory the Great and Thomas Aquinas supported the position that
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