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Book: The Old Testament Hebrew Scriptures in Five Minutes

Chapter: 19. Is the Book of Job a Theodicy?

DOI: 10.1558/equinox.44931

Blurb:

The world is unfair, even for Job, the perfect hero of the biblical book named after him. The divine speeches that vindicate and silence Job explain that God is, indeed, all powerful but not necessarily just and fair.

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