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TitleJob: An LDS Reading
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2021
AuthorsStirling, Mack C.
JournalInterpreter: A Journal of Latter-day Saint Faith and Scholarship
Volume45
Pagination135-178
KeywordsJob (Prophet); Temple Worship
Abstract

In response to questions arising within God, Job, described as blameless and upright, is thrust from idyllic circumstances into a dark realm of bitter experience. Three “friends” unwittingly press Satan’s case, attempting to convince Job to admit guilt. Job, however, holds on, searching for God’s face and progressing toward a transformed understanding of God and man, which is brought to strongest expression in four great revelatory insights received by Job. Finally, Job commits himself to God and man with self-imprecating oaths. After withstanding a final challenge from Elihu/Satan, Job speaks with God at the veil and enters God’s presence. Many points of contact with the temple support the thesis that the book of Job is a literary analogue of the endowment ritual.

URLhttps://journal.interpreterfoundation.org/job-an-lds-reading/
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