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Podcast: A New Voice of Freedom
Episode: Podcast 53, Stories of the Bible, “The Book of Job, Ch 39”
Description: Podcast 53, Stories of the Bible, “The Book of Job, Ch 39”Chapter 39 of Job is an extension of Chapter 38; therefore, there is no salutation. The Lord lists the following animals: wild goats, wild ass, unicorn, peacocks, ostrich, horse, hawk, and eagle. The unicorn is not the mythical white horse of medieval texts, but scholars speculate it was based on a real creature, a massive wild ox that was untamable. You can see a kind of movement. For example, the wild goats, wild ass, and unicorn are very much creatures of nature, particularly the wilderness, sugges...