63 | Footnotes to Job, Part 10 - The Victim


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Oct 22 2017 31 mins   1

The book of Job, as one of the oldest books (possibly THE oldest book) in the biblical canon, represents a truly astonishing, revolutionary historical and philosophical turn — a turn in favor, not of the powerful, but in favor of victims. Because we live in an age that has turned the victim into an absolute value of sorts, it's sometimes difficult to appreciate the nuances involved in this remarkable turn, which is the focus of this penultimate episode in this Unorthodoxy series on the book of Job.

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