177 | Job's righteousness and testing (JOB 1-2)

Some background first. In the ancient Near East — the region covering modern Israel, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and their neighbors — suffering wasn't just a personal problem. It was a theological one. The basic logic went like this: if you worship your god correctly, things go well. If things go badly, you did something wrong, or your god left, or a rival deity got involved. This was the default religious framework across the whole region. The Book of Job was written against that idea, and it spends its entire length picking it apart.Source:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NCDacP0D6BLimawvnDz9A5bNLEVhWvQa/view?usp=sharing