Campus Location
Abilene Campus (Residential)
Date of Award
6-2006
Document Type
Thesis
Department
Graduate School of Theology
Degree Name
Master of Arts
Committee Chair or Primary Advisor
Mark W. Hamilton
Third Committee Member or Committee Reader
John T. Willis
Abstract
Considering Job in its canonical form with special attention to the lawsuit and the mythopoeic features, this thesis investigates the portrayal of God in his speeches as a corrective to Job and his friends' erroneous view of God. Their erroneous view is based on the concept of violent and militant divine power that defeated a rival chaos deity before the foundation of the world and established order, justice, and community. Job and his friends believed that just rule, which is to preserve community order, is naturally based on the same violent power with which the world was created. Therefore, any just ruler, including God, is obliged to use his power to destroy chaos in the world and preserve good. In Job's view, any ruler that does not use his power to destroy chaos is guilty. In contrast, God redefines what is good in theocentric rather than anthropocentric, ethnocentric, or egocentric terms.
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Recommended Citation
Telgren, John David, "The Character of God in the Speeches of Yahweh in the Book of Job" (2006). Digital Commons @ ACU, Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 662.
https://digitalcommons.acu.edu/etd/662