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Knowing God in the Book of Job: David Novak

Podcast 19th July 2024

Recorded live at Ralston College in Savannah, GA in November of 2022.

Dr David Novak—Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto—offers a lecture on the Book of Job followed by an extended question and answer session with students enrolled in Ralston College’s Master’s in the Humanities Program. In his lecture, Dr Novak explores the complex position of Job in the canon of Jewish scriptures, surveys diverse scholarly accounts of the concluding passages of the book, and offers his own interpretation of Job’s “face-to-face” interaction with God, one that emphasizes direct knowledge over abstract understanding and finds in the book’s conclusion a vision of the resurrection of the body.

 

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Authors, Ideas, and Works Mentioned in this Episode: 

  • The Book of Job
  • The Book of Ezekiel
  • The Book of Leviticus
  •  The Book of Esther
  • The Book of Ecclesiastes
  • Robert Gordis, The Book of God and Man: A Study of Job 
  • mashal (משל) - Hebrew, “parable”
  • Katagoros (Hebew—קָטִיגור; Greek—κατήγορος)—”accuser” 
  • Fredrich Nietzsche
  • Johann von Rist, “O Traurigkeit, o Herzeleid” 
  • G.W.F. Hegel
  • Richard Rorty
  • Reinhold Niebuhr, The Nature and Destiny of Man 
  • Leo Strauss 
  • Plato, Republic 
  • Yehuda Haleri 
  • AristotleThomas Aquinas
  • The Book of Isaiah 
  • via negativa 
  • John Rawls
  • Eric Gregory 
  • Chaim ibn Attar
  • Tzimtzum (צמצום)