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4 - Illumined by Meaning

Religious Experience in the Book of Job

from Part II - Religious Experience in Traditional Monotheism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 June 2020

By
Howard Wettstein
Edited by
Paul K. Moser  and
Chad Meister
Paul K. Moser
Affiliation:
Loyola University, Chicago
Chad Meister
Affiliation:
Bethel University, Indiana
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Summary

Wettstein examines religious experience from the ancient Jewish perspective of the book of Job, in particular its whirlwind passage where Job is left not with a full explanation of God's ways but instead with a poetic illumination of meaning. Job receives a vision from God that can free him from his own suffering by redirecting him to some joy-enhancing features of the world that also bears crushing evil unexplained by humans.

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Religious experienceJudaismBook of JobIlluminationMeaningGodPoetryVision
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The Cambridge Companion to Religious Experience , pp. 99 - 115
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Alter, Robert. The Wisdom Books: A Translation with Commentary. London: W.W. Norton and Company, 2010, p. 8.Google Scholar
Jung, Carl Gustav. Answer to Job. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1958. Translated by R. F. C. Hull. Extracted from Vol. 11 of Collected Works of C. G. Jung.Google Scholar
Nagel, Thomas. The View from Nowhere. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.Google Scholar
Russell, Bill, and Branch, Taylor. Second Wind. New York: Random House, 1979.Google Scholar
The Book of Job. Translated by Mitchell, Stephen (abridged). New York: HarperPerennial, 1992.Google Scholar

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