The Two Testaments
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Job 3 (Job's Birthday Curse)
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Job 3 (Job's Birthday Curse)

with Dr. Jeff Leonard

Episode on Job 3 is Live

Join us as Dr. Jeff Leonard (Samford University) talks to us about Job 3. We discuss a number of things including: the pivotal role of Job 3 in the book, its connections with Genesis, Jeremiah, and ancient Near Eastern mythology, its rhetorical function, and its vision of the afterlife.

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This Week’s Blurbs

In this episode, Jeff Leonard recommends Samuel Balentine’s Have You Considered My Servant Job?

Jeff also recommends the movie, Arrival, directed by Denis Villeneuve, starring Amy Adams, Jeremy Renner, and Forest Whitaker.

Other Books and Articles Mentioned in This Episode

Fishbane, Michael. “Jeremiah IV 23–26 and Job III 3–13: A Recovered Use of the Creation Pattern.” Vetus Testamentum 21 (1971): 151–67.

Leonard, Jeffery M. “Let the Day Perish: The Nexus of Personification and Mythology in Job 3.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43 (2018): 247-270.


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