The ‘scrapheap’ Job -- #58

[April 1999 journal entry]

There are at least three ways to read the story/play Job – i.e.,

1. focus on ‘God’, with the ‘tempter’ perspective and the human perspective as secondary considerations,
   
   
2. focus on the ‘tempter’, with the ‘God’ perspective and the human perspective as secondary considerations,
   
   
3. focus on Job and other human perspectives, with the ‘God’ perspective and the ‘tempter’ perspective as secondary considerations.