
Ep 59 - The Book of Job (Reading the Bible as Great Literature)
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The Odyssey: The Ways of God to Man
The book begins in typical folkloric fashion, once upon a time. There was a man in the land of us whose name was Job. The story begins with a prose frame and then from the third verse onwards the story becomes sublime poetry. This is the only time we will be privy to the ways of God. Where we are, who knows? We exist in this outside plane beyond time and space where we are allowed to peek into the inner workings of the heavenly court.
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