OT061-912 - Interpreting and Applying Job

  • 3,288 Standard Tuition Fee
  • 12
    Credit Points
  • 0.125 EFT 
  • 9
    AQF level
  • Category advanced unit
    C
  • Old Testament Unit Discipline

Prerequisites

48cps Level 8; 12cps from units in OT or NT with a unit code of OT004 or higher code or NT004 or higher code, or study deemed equivalent by the ACT Registrar to appropriately prepare students for undertaking the unit.

Set Text

This unit counts towards the "set text" unit requirements of courses.

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will

A. Know and understand

Demonstrate Specialised knowledge and understanding of the interpretation and application of the Book of Job.

B. Be able to

1. Evaluate Specialised methods and issues on the interpretation and application of the Book of Job
2. Integrate diverse scholarship and ministry experience in the interpretation and application of the Book of Job
3. Present independent Research-Driven perspectives on the interpretation and application of the Book of Job

C. Be in a position to

1. Applying research-based perspectives and skills from ‘Interpreting and Applying Job’ to ministry practice and Christian living as a reflective practitioner

Content

1. Introduction to recent and current perspectives on Job
2. Wisdom literature: including the orthodox and speculative wisdom distinction
3. Israelite wisdom: Job compared with Proverbs and Ecclesiastes
4. ANE wisdom and the genre of Job: including reverse Canaanite cosmogonic myth, Babylonian birth incantation, Egyptian speculative wisdom
5. Themes: including creation, Satan, the body, righteousness, redemption
6. Theology: God’s character, justice, grace, sovereignty,
7. Suffering and theodicy: the nature, causes, and purpose of suffering
8. Comfort: including integrity, trust, counsellors, theophany, prosperity, eschatology
9. Job in Christian context
10. Exegesis of selected chapters of Job

Set Readings

This unit's indicative bibliography is currently being revised. Students should contact their home college for further details at the time of taking this unit.


Prescribed:
Belcher, Richard P. Job: The Mystery of Suffering and God’s Sovereignty (Fearn: Christian Focus, 2017).
Clines, David J. A. and Bruce M. Metzger, Job 38 - 42, WBC (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2011).
Jackson, David R., ‘Cosmic Bully or God of Grace? The Book of Job as Māšāl’, WTJ 78 (2016), 65-73.
 

Recommended:
Brettler, Marc Zvi, ‘(Divine) Silence Is Golden: A New Reading of the Prologue of Job’, Interested Readers: Essays on the Hebrew Bible in Honor of David J. A. Clines (Atlanta: SBL, 2013), 19-26.
Burnight, John D., ‘Job 5:7 as Eliphaz's Response to Job's 'Malediction' (3:3-10)’, JBL 133, no. 1 (2014), 77-94.
Currid, John D. Why Do I Suffer? Suffering and the Sovereignty of God (Fearn: Christian Focus, 2004).
Erickson, Amy, ‘'Without My Flesh I Will See God': Job's Rhetoric of the Body’, JBL 132, no. 2 (2013), 295-313.
Fisher, Loren R., The Many Voices of Job (Eugene: Cascade Books, 2009).
Fox, Michael V., ‘God's Answer and Job's Response’, Biblica 94, no. 1 (2013), 1-23.
Longman, Tremper, III, The Fear of the Lord is Wisdom (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2017).
O’Donnell, Douglas Sean. The Beginning and End of Wisdom (Wheaton: Crossway, 2011).
 

Classics:
Tsevat, Matitiahu, ‘The Meaning of the Book of Job’, Sitting with Job: Selected Studies on
the Book of Job, ed. Roy Zuck (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1992), 189-218.
Von Rad, Gerhard, Wisdom in Israel (Nashville: Abingdon, 1972).
 

Commentaries:
Hartley, John E. The Book of Job, NICOT (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988).
Walton, John H. Job, NAC (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2012).

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