When the biblical book of Job storms to its table-turning conclusion, it has no remaining curiosity for the battered psyche of its central figure. All that we know is that things are now better than they were even in the almost paradisical state in which we met Job. And the LORD restored the fortunes of [...]
Archive for July, 2008
Job’s memories: Job 41-42
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Job, textures on July 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
mercy’s complications: Acts 15
Posted in textures, tagged Acts, biblical reflection, textures on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Irrepressible mercy is both many-splendored and complicating. The famous colloquy of Acts 15 is made necessary by the unanticipated vigor with which non-Jews respond to the proclamation that Israel’s messiah has died and come alive again. To James of Jerusalem is given the moment for summation. He responds by framing events in the context of [...]
words without understanding: Job 36-38
Posted in reseña, tagged biblical reflection, Job, textures on July 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In a manner of speaking, Job gets his wish in the end. In another way, he does not. As the book’s pain-wracked central figure has plead, Yahweh breaks silence and speaks. Yet he does not provide Job with the simple justification he has so volubly desired: Then the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind: [...]
irrepressible: Acts 14
Posted in textures, tagged Acts, biblical reflection, textures on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Many Christians refer to one of Jesus’ final recorded statements as his great commission. As commonly translated, one might also consider it Jesus’ great imperative: Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey [...]
eat your peas!: Job 33-35
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Job, textures on July 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For Elihu and his bombast, things are really very simple. Job is suffering. God brings suffering only upon those who deserve it. Therefore, Job must have sinned to deserve his wretched boils, his insufferable loss, his rude, public indignity. When Elihu has freed himself of his alleged restraint, the words flow like a river in [...]
the unbearable weight of youth: Job 31-32
Posted in textures, tagged biblical reflection, Job, textures on July 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The book of Job arrays against its suffering central figure young Elihu, its fourth righteousness-clogged speechmaker. His self-description is laborious. Elihu has restrained himself just long enough for his three elders to give up their speechifying in an indignant harrumph over Job’s alleged insistence upon ‘justifying himself’. But no more. Elihu is young and he [...]
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