Classed with the poetic books of the Old Testament, Job is a book of deep philosophy which deals with some of the basic problems of life. It is cast in the form of a dramatic poem. There is a prose ...

The Bible’s Book of Job could be the book of America in 2020 – rife with pandemic death, inexplicable suffering, tested faith, and social injustice. We think we know poor bedeviled Job — stripped of ...

Last week, I mentioned one of my favorite passages from the Bible — Job 38-41. In these chapters, “The Lord answered Job out of the whirlwind.” (38:1 KJV) These four chapters are, to me, not only ...

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(RNS) For the couple of months since I went public about my brain cancer, I’ve had many people of many faiths send me messages that they were praying for me. Some said they were hoping to nudge the ...

One of the Tanach (Bible) courses I took as an undergraduate at the Jewish Theological Seminary was the book of Job. In the many years, decades, perhaps centuries in its transmission from the original ...

Psalm 19 promises that “the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.” But as Abraham Lincoln knew when he used that phrase in his Second Inaugural Address, referring to the horrendous ...

The Book of Job is commonly — and mistakenly — seen as a story of the “patience of Job.” And sometimes people have trouble locating its place in the Bible. Asked by reporters last January to name his ...