54 | Footnotes to Job, Part 1 - A Surplus of Meaning


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Aug 21 2017 27 mins   1

The book of Job is one of the most brilliant and perplexing literary works to grace the stage of the human drama; and this is the first episode in a series on Unorthodoxy that focuses on this amazing book. The aim in this series is to look for unfamiliar nuggets of brilliance in what is, for many, an overly familiar text. In this episode, we take a look at the hermeneutical idea of a "surplus of meaning" and how the awareness of layers of meaning can begin to help us to look for fresh insights and new wisdom in, among other places, the book of Job. We also look at how (and why) the book of Job is not like a Netflix show. Although this series is rooted in solid scholarship, occasionally scholarly detail has needed to be sacrificed for the sake of what is hopefully a more pleasant listening experience.