Episode on Job’s “Redeemer” is Live

Join us as Scott C. Jones (Covenant College) helps us “mine” the depths of the marvelous and mysterious wisdom poem in Job 28. We discuss a number of things, including: the speaker of the poem, its challenge to human self-confidence, its ancient Near Eastern background, the difficulty of translating its imagery (and translating in general), and its connections with the Epic of Gilgamesh (and space exploration).

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Jones wrote the article on Job in The Oxford Handbook of Wisdom and the Bible (ed. Will Kynes. Oxford University Press, 2021), so this week, thanks to Oxford University Press, we’re giving away a copy of the whole handbook (a $150 value).

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Relevant work by Scott Jones

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* Rumors of Wisdom: Job 28 as Poetry. Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 398. De Gruyter, 2009.

* “Job.” In The Oxford Handbook of Wisdom and the Bible, ed. Will Kynes. Oxford University Press, 2021.

* “Job 28 and Modern Theories of Knowledge.” Theology Today 69 (2013): 486–96.

This Week’s Blurbs

In this episode, Scott Jones recommends:

* George, Andrew. The Epic of Gilgamesh. Penguin, 2003.

* Greenstein, Edward. Job: A New Translation. Yale University Press, 2020.

* Erickson, Amy. Jonah. Illuminations. Eerdmans, 2021.

Other Books and Articles Mentioned in This Episode

* Fox, Michael V. “The Speaker in Job 28.” Pages 21-38 in “When the Morning Stars Sang”: Essays in Honor of Choon Leong Seow on the Occasion of His Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Scott C. Jones and Christine Roy Yoder. De Gruyter, 2018.

* Lo, Alison. Job 28 as Rhetoric: An Analysis of Job 28 in the Context of Job 22-31. Brill, 2003.

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