Job - A Parable of Dust and Ashes - a pdf of my attempt at a concordant translation
The Job digest 4-19 20-42
To get through Job in 4 to 6 1 hour sessions
1. read the frame, chapters 1 and 2 and 42
2. read chapter 3 and the parts of chapter 3 picked up in Yhwh's response
3. Introduce the structure
4. use the above digest versions to perform a mini-series with 6 actors.
Job by chapter
- 1 2 story frame 3 uncreation 4:1-11 (Eliphaz) 4:12 ff
- 5:1-12 (Eliphaz) 5:12-27 6:1-10 (Job) 6:11-21 6:22 ff
- 7 (Job) 8 (Bildad) 9 (Job) 10 11 (Zophar) 12 (Job) 13 14 15:1-16 (Eliphaz) 15:17-35
- 16 (Job) 17 18 (Bildad) 19 (Job) 20 (Zophar) 21:1-15 (Job) 21:16-34 22 (Eliphaz) 23 (Job) 24 25 (Bildad) 26 (Job) 27
- 28 - hymn to wisdom
- 29 (Job) 30 31End of dialogue 32 Elihu 33 34 35 36 37
- 38 יְהוָה speaks 39 40 41 42 closing frame
Concepts in Job
- Character analysis
- light | the characters - the referee | decree statute portion
- Ticciati | covenant | creation
- man male mortal human warrior | hand and palm
- story | answer to Job? | frame answer
- politeness | turn and return | trust and believe
- chastise or correct | instruction
- prepositions | more prepositions
- cover secret hide conceal withdraw | tremble
- fear dread and terror | completeness
- large-scale structure | the qere in 21:13
- theodicy | resources | more resources
- meaning of 19:25 | and again
