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Our Day in Job
Session #1: Approaching the book of Job
Session #2: The Prologue: launching into Job
Session #3: Examining a theme: poverty in Job
Session #4: God’s speeches and conclusions
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NIKOLAI: You made that up, didn’t you? I am talking to you like a normal person, and here you are giving me all this… Is that a fairy tale?’
PRIEST: No, it’s from the Bible.
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Session #1
Approaching the Book of Job
Key background issues
The importance and relevance of the book
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Approaching the Book of Job
Wonderful
Challenging
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Approaching the Book of Job
Important
Relevant
Job ‘speaks to and for all humanity’ (Pope)
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Job in the Ancient Near East
‘Retribution’
Similarities and Differences
Job speaks a true and distinctive word of hope: an encounter with Yahweh
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Session #2
The Prologue (chs. 1-2): Launching into Job
A close reading of the Prologue
The artistry of the book
The centrality of Job for life and mission
The pastoral potential and pitfalls of Job
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The Prologue: Launching into Job
Scene one – on earth (1:1-5): Who is Job?
Scene two – in heaven (1:6-12): The question is raised
Scene three – on earth (1:13-22): Tragedy strikes and Job responds
Scene four – in heaven (2:1-6): The question raised again
Scene five – on earth (2:7-13): More tragedy, a further response, and the views of others
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The Prologue: Launching into Job
Question:
How does Job help us to process pain and what does this mean for life, mission and ministry?
… at home… at work… in church communities…?
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Session #3
Exploring a theme: Poverty in Job
Three passages
Five challenges
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Poverty in Job
Three passages focusing on the treatment of the poor
Job 24:1-17
Job 29:11-17
Job 31:13-23
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Poverty in Job
Five challenges concerning poverty put on the agenda by the book of Job:
Challenging God
Challenging the friends
Challenging the wicked
Challenging the self
Challenging the world
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Session #4
God’s speeches and conclusions
Speech one (38:1-40:2)
Job’s response (40:3-5)
Speech two (40:6-41:34)
Job’s response (42:1-6)
Conclusions (the Epilogue – 42:7-17)
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God’s speeches and conclusions
Where does the conclusion of the book leave us?
How does the book of Job equip us for life and mission?