
Ep 164 | Job, Come Follow Me (August 1-7)
Talking Scripture
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Can You Play With Him Like a Little Bird and Bind Him for Little Girls or for Thy Maidens?
The poem is asking interesting quest s like, how can i keep from being miserable in a universe that i can't predict? Or why do the ideological structures that we create to help us understand the cosmos end up preventing us from acting effectively in it? In other words, god calls this mighty sea monster, which in the ancient, near eastern myth whether it's tiamot or leviathan or rahab. And so what if that's the point of the whole book of job, is that he's going on this journey to come into the father's presence? What if it's both? I think another way to read this, and this is coming from a max sterling, he
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