Full Course | 17 hours
1. Introduction and History of Interpretation
1.1 Authorship, Date, and Canonical Setting
1.2 Genre: Ancient and Inner-biblical
1.3 Perspective, Structure, and Interpretive Issues: Prologue
1.4 Interpretive Issues: Dialogues, Elihu Speeches
1.5 Interpretive Issues: Whirlwind Speeches, Epilogue; History of Reception: LXX Part 1
1.6 History of Reception: LXX Part 2, James 5:11
1.7 History of Reception: Rabbinic Readings, Patristic and Medieval, Gregory Part 1
1.8 History of Reception: Gregory Part 2
2. History of Interpretation (Cont.)
2.1 History of Reception: Maimonides
2.2 History of Reception: Aquinas Part 1
2.3 History of Reception: Aquinas Part 2, Calvin Part 1
2.4 History of Reception: Calvin Part 2
2.5 History of Reception: Calvin Part 3
2.6 History of Reception: Barth Part 1
2.7 History of Reception: Barth Part 2
3. Exegesis
3.1 Job 1:1 Translations
3.2 Job 1:1 Job and Adam Part 1
3.3 Job 1:1 Job and Adam Part 2, Job 1:4-5
3.4 Job 1-2 Job as God’s Representative
3.5 Job 9 Job’s Call for a Mediator Part 1
3.6 Job 16, 19 32-33 Job’s Call for a Mediator Part 2
3.7 Job 16:7-21 Job’s Witness in Heaven
4. Exegesis and the Rule of Faith
4.1 Christotelism and Job 19:25-27
4.2 New Testament Use of the Old and Job 32-33
4.3 Genesis 2-3, Job’s Prologue, and the Rule of Faith
4.4 Folly and Wisdom and the Dialogues (Job’s 3 Friends, Job, and Elihu)
4.5 What to Do with Elihu?
4.6 Retributive Suffering in Genesis and the Whirlwind Speeches
5. Theological Reflection on Job
5.1 The Theological Significance of Closure in Job
5.2 Closure and Theophany in the Divine Speeches
5.3 Job 40:3-5 and 42:1-6 Job’s Confessions
5.4 Job 42:7 Translation and Interpretation
5.5 Job 42:7 Phronēsis, and the Error of Job’s Friends
5.6 Reading Job in Canonical Context (Job 28 and the Ontology of Wisdom)
5.7 Reading Job in Canonical Context (Proverbs 8 and the Ontology of Wisdom)
5.8 The Pastoral Implications of Wisdom in Job
