What is it about?
This article revises the role and significance the satan figure and associated test in the Job Prologue. The test may instead embrace issues which would affect the proper observation of social justice, such as Just World delusion and presumption of grace.
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Why is it important?
For years the book of Job has been partitioned off from the rest of canon as a Wisdom Text. This reassessment of the satan figure and the closely associated test more closely aligns it with rest of canon, especially the prophetic literature in its overriding concern for the observation of social justice.
Perspectives
A continuing reassessment of the book of Job, especially noting its alignment with the broader corpus of the HB, and especially the prophetic corpus, rather than its pigeonholing within a ' wisdom tradition'.
Mr. Geoffrey John Aimers
University of Otago
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This page is a summary of: ‘Give the Devil His Due’: The Satanic Agenda and Social Justice in the Book of Job, Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, August 2012, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0309089212455496.
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