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Podcast: The Amazing Bible. Book Club
Episode: Job - Chapters 1-2
Description: Many people consider Job to be the oldest book of the OT, possibly around the time of Abraham around 2000-1800 BC. The author is unnamed. Job is from the land of Uz, and he was considered the greatest man among all the people of the East. This first Book of Poetry, is a combination of various literary styles, such as the beginning and ending are narrative, then we have dialogue, soliloquy, discourse, and even a hymn in chapter 28. The purpose of this book is it deals with the issue of why good people suffer, why bad things happen to...