Job 4–5, 11 (Job’s Friends) with Patricia Vesely

Dr. Patricia Vesely of Memphis Theological Seminary talks to us about Job’s friends, looking in particular at Eliphaz in chs. 4–5 and Zophar in ch. 11. We discuss a number of things including: the significance of friendship in Job; what the friends get right and wrong; connections between Job and the Psalms; the friends’ low view of humanity; and their emphasis on technique in relating to God.

Relevant Works by Patricia Vesely

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• Friendship and Virtue Ethics in the Book of Job (Cambridge University Press, 2019). 

This Episode’s Blurb

Patricia Vesely recommends:

• Samuel Balentine, Ecce Homo: Behold the Man. Ethical Imperatives of the Lenten Journey
• Makoto Fujimura, Art and Faith: A Theology of Making.

OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• Nemo, Philippe. Job and the Excess of Evil. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1998.

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