Episode 24 - Evil in the Bible: Job, the Old Testament, and Satan
In the third episode in our series of looking at evil in the Bible, we find ourselves jumping around the Bible. Starting with the first couple of chapters of the Book of Job, and exploring a number of other writings in the Old Testament, we are going to explore the figure of Satan within the Hebrew canon. We are going to consider the questions:
Who or what is the Satan which is found in chapters 1 and 2 of the book of Job?
How does Job's Satan compare to the Satan found within other Old Testament/ Tanakh writing?
How does Satan differ in these difference contexts?
What is a theodicy, and how…
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