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2012-2013 HillBook (Class of 2016) 
    
2012-2013 HillBook (Class of 2016) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]

REL 304 - Job and the Problem of Suffering

Three Credits
Not Offered 2011 - 2012

An examination of the book of Job and its poetic treatment of the human condition. The course also considers other ancient Near Eastern texts that deal with the issue of evil in the world from a religious perspective, and later readings and retellings of Job by Blake, Frost, Jung, MacLeish, Fackenheim, and others.