185 | First divine speech and Job's response (JOB 38-40;5)

We're somewhere in the ancient Near East. The story of Job presents itself as set in a patriarchal world — the kind of world that existed in roughly the second millennium BCE, before Israel had a monarchy or a written law code. Whether the book was actually written then is a separate question we'll come back to. For now: this is a world where the cosmos isn't a neutral backdrop. It's a living arena full of divine beings, chaos forces, and the constant threat of things coming apart. And the operating assumption, for most people in this world, is simple: if something terrible is happening to you, you did something to deserve it. That was the standard thinking. Job's whole book is an argument against it. And after thirty-seven chapters of human debate, God finally shows up.Source:https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nJTHdvaf05ELrmRSaYRc1rS6dzzmYb12/view?usp=sharing