Book of Job is a Theological Dialectic
Book of Job is a theological dialectic. Similar to the Bhagavad Gita in that the story is just a frame for allowing the characters to discuss ideas and convey doctrine.
The Zoroastrian influence of an "equal" God and Devil is in evidence in the framing scene, but past that, the real meat is all the friends of Job bringing to him their ideas of why he's fallen on hard times, and how he refutes each bad idea.
It's most interesting in that he really doesn't find a solid answer - and in terms of God & Devil just playing dice with his life, no wonder - there isn't one. But it's valuable for the parsing of what are the wrong ideas.
But what do I know? I'm just some Moron on the interwebz.
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