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Arthur Dent, an English Puritan, reflects on salvation and recalls Job’s grim scenes of cruelty. Under feudal lords, the poor—farmers, laborers, widows—trembled and hid at their approach. One wonders: where do the poor still hide today? And can we be the sort whose voice, like in Job 29, brings them relief rather than dread?

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I've been slacking off on my extra-curricular reading the last few months. Got to
work on changing that.

Last night, I finally completed C. Fred Alford's "After the Holocaust: The Book of Job, Primo Levi, and the Path to Affliction"

It's a multi-disciplinary study on the themes within the Book of Job, testimony
from survivors of the Holocaust(in this case, specifically, Levi) within a
framework of psychology & Continental philosophy. A favored type of
'light' reading, for me. Good stuff.

While not terribly full of sunshine, lollipops, and rainbows, I did
manage to glimpse a few shards of light, and perhaps hope, as in this passage:

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Since at least the Book of Job, religious thinkers have wrestled to reconcile the existence of a just deity with the continual success and prosperity of people like Elon Musk .

Image : William Blake -- 1793 -- Job's Tormentors (cropped) -- Engraving/Etching -- Wikimedia Commons -- Public domain

Go to the William Blake Archive for a full description of this print: https://blakearchive.org/work/esv

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