Discussion for 14th March

Does the book of Job offer any hope for people enduring pain and suffering? Following a brief introduction to Job as a work of literature, we will consider passages from Job chapters 14 and 19. In chapter 14 Job compares the fate of humans to that of a tree and to various processes of decay in the natural world. In chapter 19 we find the famous declaration “I know that my redeemer liveth”, which Christian interpreters have taken as a reference to Jesus. What did the author mean by the phrase?

Join Zoom Meeting at 6.15pm for a 6.30pm start on on Monday 14th March

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