{"id":7019,"date":"2010-01-10T08:37:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T12:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=7019"},"modified":"2010-01-10T08:37:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-10T12:37:50","slug":"religious-knowledge-lecture-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/01\/10\/religious-knowledge-lecture-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Religious Knowledge, Lecture 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7022\" style=\"width: 463px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7022\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7022  \" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/01\/Job-and-his-Daughters1.jpg\" alt=\"Job-and-his-Daughters\" width=\"453\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/01\/Job-and-his-Daughters1.jpg 559w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/01\/Job-and-his-Daughters1-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 453px) 100vw, 453px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-7022\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blake&#039;s Job and His Daughters, 1800<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Lecture 15. <\/strong><strong>January 27, 1948<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">THE BOOK OF JOB<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The whole meaning of this book is complicated.\u00a0 It is completely a work of literary art, and affords the guarantee that, for the Bible, the use of the poetic imagination is legitimate and essential.\u00a0 It is akin to literary forms we meet elsewhere.\u00a0 The original of epics and sagas are all there in the Bible, but they have been incorporated into something else. \u00a0Only the forms that are on the more remote side, such as letters, memoirs, have continued as definite forms.<\/p>\n<p>Job seems unconnected with anything else in the Bible, except in tone.\u00a0 It was probably subject to an editing process. \u00a0But the editing, as well as the writing, is inspired.\u00a0 It is a fairly late book.<\/p>\n<p>Shakespeare\u2019s comedies start out as light, urbane, sophisticated romance, like <em>Twelfth Night<\/em>, which has a lilt to it, and we enter into a carnival world where frustrations have disappeared. \u00a0The later comedies have elements which disrupt the feeling of pleasantness. \u00a0<em>The Merchant of Venice <\/em>is practically a tragedy.\u00a0 Shylock disturbs us, and the metallic quality of the imagery effects the whole tone. \u00a0Then his comedy digs more deeply into the tragedy of life.\u00a0 The sense of escape, of the fairy world, fades out.\u00a0 <em>All\u2019s Well That Ends Well<\/em> has an ironic title.\u00a0 Falstaff is an ambiguous character; he is not a figure of fun; the tragic and the comic are rooted in him. \u00a0<em>The Winter\u2019s Tale<\/em> and <em>The Tempest <\/em>have serenity and repose.<\/p>\n<p>Job is a tough piece of work.\u00a0 The last chapter has the feeling of comic resolution\u2014he has got everything back.\u00a0 Yet it isn\u2019t resolution.\u00a0 If you lose something, you don\u2019t get it back.\u00a0 The notion that Job could be restored doesn\u2019t work.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">WHY DO THE INNOCENT SUFFER?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The heart of the book is a discussion as why the innocent suffer. The three comforters are not fools; they are trying to help, to bring balance and reason into his mind through Jewish law.\u00a0 They are people of human sympathy, conventional people as in Greek tragic chorus, the voice of common sense.\u00a0 Job doesn\u2019t make a much better show than they do.\u00a0 The sense that Job is a tragedy is because of the dialogue concerning the suffering of the innocent, which is the theme of all tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>It is tormenting to anyone but the reader who has read the prologue. We cannot forget that \u201cway up in the gods\u201d are God and Satan betting on Job.\u00a0 The one argument that newer occurs to the comforters is that God wants to settle a bet.\u00a0 They assume that Job is suffering because he has done wrong. \u00a0We know it is because he has done right.\u00a0 Job is happy and prosperous because he is attached to God. \u00a0Man fell because he detached himself from God. \u00a0Here, God withdraws from Man, a paradox.<\/p>\n<p>Job and his friends take part in a dialogue.\u00a0 The author is trying to fish something out of tragedy, to establish the point of tragedy.\u00a0 The point of Job is \u201cwhy do the innocent suffer?\u201d\u00a0 This is the same question as in<em> Lear<\/em> in Cordelia\u2019s death.\u00a0 The tragic flaw as a moral judgment is not a tragic flaw at all.\u00a0 In Milton, the flaw in Adam is that he is a creature of free will.\u00a0 But Adam\u2019s flaw does not infer a moral judgment on God.<\/p>\n<p>Job says, I have done nothing to deserve this.\u00a0 The flaw is that he exists.\u00a0 The flaw, therefore, seems to be in the God that made him. \u00a0Yet, a moral judgment on God is irrelevant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecture 15. 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