Daniel Haas

Tag: Job

  • What must I do?

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    Flip your Bible open on a random page, point your finger on a random verse and read it out loud. How would you feel if you had to live your life accordingly?

  • God and the Super Bowl

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    You know what the biggest group of Americans say they DON’T do on any given Sunday? – Be in church or watch football! According to the January PRRI/RNS Religious News Survey most people forgo both of these Sunday activities. Now, as a pastor I am a regular at church but I must admit that I…

  • 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?