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2010-2011 HillBook (Class of 2014) 
    
2010-2011 HillBook (Class of 2014) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]

REL 304 - Job and the Problem of Suffering

Three Credits
Alternate Years: Fall 2011, 2013

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.