Everything You Need to Know About the Book of Job: Dr. Ellie Paley
About this episode
Dr. Ellie Paley provides an in-depth analysis of the Book of Job, exploring its themes, characters, and theological implications.
Click here for your free copy of When Faith is Forbidden by Todd Nettleton Dr. Ellie Paley received her Ph.D. from Cambridge University, where she studied the book of Job, and she’s currently pursuing a post-doc at Bar-Illan University in Israel. Ellie literally memorized the entire book—in Hebrew…in 6 months! Job is her gig and she knows more about the book than anyone I know. In this episode, Ellie gives a master class on the book of Job, discussing its date, the setting, the meaning of “The Adversary” (hasatan, or Satan?), the purpose of the prologue (Job 1-2), the content of purpose of the dialogue cycle of Job’s 3 friends, the purpose of the transitionary wisdom poem of Job 28, the role and function of Elihu’s speech and why she thinks he’s a rather presumptuous young buck who thinks he knows better than he really does, God’s response to Job, and how the book resolves in the latter chapters. We end by reflecting on Job’s contribution to the question of theodicy and the problem of evil. To follow Ellie’s work, check out her Substack “Compulsively Contemplative.” Time Stamps 00:00:00 Introduction 00:01:05 Why Memorize the Book of Job? (Hebrew, Theology &…
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