RELG 203 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Ketuvim, Tanakh, Cliffhanger

• School: McGill University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELG 203
• Professor: Aaron Ricker

Document Summary

Central themes are usually things like: what is the nature of a good life, what is wisdom. "the satan" - in this story he is not yet the devil, he is part of the court of heaven as a persecutor. Satan is derived from the hebrew word adversary. In the version we have, job gets everything he lost back, this fact is not necessarily the same in every version. In the oldest copies of mark, it ends with a cliff-hanger; the disciples at the tomb. In the copies we have now it has a more "happy" ending. It"s hard to tell who the bad guy is in the story of job. Movie - "a serious man" is a re-make of the story of job. Images from the psalms come back in christian stories. The advice in there is for the young people training to be princes and kings. Said to come from eastern wisdom; such as egypt.