The book of Job is one of the most brilliant and perplexing literary works to grace the stage of the human drama; and this is the fifth episode in a series on Unorthodoxy that focuses on this amazing book. The aim in this series is to look for unfamiliar nuggets of brilliance in what is, for many, an overly familiar text. In this episode, we take a look at the perplexing relationship between God, the "small s" satan, and the character we may not have realized is also on trial in the book of Job — you and me, the reader. Detours via the stories of Noah and Jacob invite some interesting hermeneutic speculations ...

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