Dr. John Walton, Job, Lecture 4, Genre and Structure (nature of Wisdom)

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Outline:
00:24 Introductory Questions
1:06 Inspiration: God as its Source
1:58 Authority and Our Submissive Response
2:53 Revelation and Discerning the Wisdom Message
5:19 Authority is not in its Historicity
6:37 Similar to Jesus' Parables
7:41 Authority in its Wisdom Message
10:03 Knowing God
122:03 Bible and Syllabus Illustration of Revelation
14:23 Summary
15:17 Implications of Authority and Our Submission to It
16:20 End

[deconlite]

Great Lecture!!! Thanks for explaining the Book of Job in a new way I have never heard it!!

[tedhildebrandt_BeL]

Outline:
00:24 Introduction
00:57 Importance of Genre
4:16 Job as a Thought Experiment
5:57 Pushing Extremes
7:28 Job as a Literary Construct
11:21 God's Words in a Thought Experiment
12:53 Benefits of Seeing Job as a Thought Experiment
14:40 Book not about Heavenly Discussions
15:47 Rhetorical Strategy: Structure and the Wisdom Hymn
20:20 Dialogues and Discourses
23:30 Rhetorical Strategy and Authorial Intent
26:17 End

[ginashimoda]

This was an amazing lecture. Thank you so much. Is there a written transcript anywhere?

[JoshuaCEdwardsMusic]

Really enjoying this series but I think you’ve completely misunderstood the divine council scene. I don’t even think you can make the case that the Satan in Job is our “devil”.

[budyharianto]

This lecture 4 is very thought provoking lecture indeed..
thanx you..

If the book was a literary construct within it's rhetorical strategy, ..who ( what authority) can decide which wrong conclusions as a side efffects of its rethorical strategy...?
Is the literary construct was developed by (only one) Author or more, as it' s growth in time, ..
is the any archeological funding conforming this ?..
Is any data from genesis aphocryphon about this book of Job?...
What is the jewish understanding about this book is the same consepts or differ?
Thank You Dr. John Walton

[MusicalRaichu]

I'm enjoying the series so far.

Only why spend so much time on historicity? Why are some parts of Christianity obsessed with historicity when we now know much of the OT is fiction, folklore, or inaccurate as history? Job may or may not have been based on a real person, there's no way to know, so we might as well forget about it. Point is, it is irrelevant. What matters is that the thought experiment scenario is in principle realistically possible.

I'm curious about the difference between Proverbs' view that wisdom leads to prosperity and Job's that there's no such guarantee. Hope you get to that later in the series.

[judyhildebrant]

We're probably related a few generations back.

[budyharianto]

By saying that this book was a literary construct, which is focused on wisdom, ..but what kind of wisdom then, ...true one or falsch?..
Simple hebrew faith won"t have this kind of category of this kind of text critism, by which wrong projection of mind could be occur....???