Daniel Haas

Month: October 2011

  • Job restored

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    For many readers of Job, the epilogue seems too neat, too simplistic, too much a “happy ending” to the difficult questions raised by the rest of the book. Read a wonderful reflection from Enter the Bible: Your browser does not support iframes.

  • Leviathan

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    Job 41 introduces Leviathan. In today’s Hebrew לויתן means simply Whale just like in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick: John Wood argued this sea monster be a crocodile: Thomas Hobbes used the name to describe the rule by an absolute sovereign:

  • Behemoth

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    Job 40 introduces the Behemoth. The word Behemoth appears frequently in the Hebrew Bible and is typically translated as “wild animals” (Psalm 8:8; Joel 1:20; 2:22; Habbakuk 2:17). Here it appears as a pluralis excellentiae though, referring to just one very wild beast. It is not a dinosaur: So what does it look like now?

  • Sermon Podcast: Who are you?

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    Who_are_you_10_16_2011.m4a Listen on Posterous Listen to a sermon by the Rev. Daniel Haas. It was based on Exodus 33:12-23 and delivered at Provo Community United Church of Christ on October 16th 2011.

  • The ostrich and the horse

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    Aesop’s well-known fable The Tortoise and the Hare is reflected in Job 39: Both were written in the 6th century BC.