Hello and welcome to the Scriptures or Real Podcast.

This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have become very real to us or in some way have touched us deeply so that we can draw more power out of the scriptures because we believe

we need that power desperately and that it is real the power that is in the scriptures. I'm your

host, Kerry Mielstein, and this is a shortcast introducing us to the book of Job. I'm actually

redoing this. I uploaded one that has had some audio problems and we haven't been able to figure out why it won't upload

correctly. So I'm just going to re-record this. Maybe I'll add a little bit more and we'll see

if we can get this to upload correctly. But this is just an introduction to help you understand

some of the background of the book of Job a little bit better. I have a longer episode with Josh Sears, where we explore

kind of the main theme of Job, just using Job as a springboard, the theme of suffering and so on.

And then, of course, there are other podcasts or my old commentary, Scripture Study made simple,

where you can get more in depth on this. But this is just

an introductory thing. And we should maybe take a moment to just stop and talk about how we're in a

different phase of the Bible now. We've left the historical books, these writings that have been

telling us the history. Really, we've had mostly narrative from Genesis. Obviously, it's not narrative when we get the laws of Moses and so on.

But really, we've done mostly a narrative from Genesis through the end of Esther.

A lot of storyline that we've covered, really the whole storyline of the Old Testament.

Now we're getting into the period that is called the writings, and then we'll do the prophets after that.

And the writings include things like the Job, Ecclesiastes, Proverbs, Psalms, those kinds of things,

and then we'll do the prophetic works.

And so we're jumping in with Job, which is a fantastic book.

It's a genre of what we'd call wisdom literature. It's kind of

the speculative nature of wisdom literature. We have an episode on Proverbs coming up where we'll

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