11/2/2022 0 Comments The unholy showtimes near me![]() ![]() ![]() He’s been shattered by life-shocks then God, like a wall of terrible noise, fills and overfills his mind. … Here is a middle-finger Job, a Job unreconciled to the despotism of experience. In a review of Greenstein’s book, James Parker writes: “This newly revealed Job is expressing defiance, not capitulation. So the line becomes, “I take pity on ‘dust and ashes.’” He further translates: “And then Job said unto the Lord, what a world you’ve made, God. “Dust and ashes,” meanwhile, is for Greenstein a biblical epithet meaning humanity in general. The Hebrew phrase commonly rendered as some form of “I repent,” Greenstein translates as “I take pity on.” (Job 42:6). In a new translation of the book of Job, Job: A New Translation by Edward Greenstein, the famously repentant hero gives God a piece of his mind. ![]() In what some scholars believe is an appendage to the original manuscript, in an attempt to preserve the divine scales of the Deuteronomistic theology, God eventually gives Job back animals and children - new ones, because the old ones are still dead. In short, stuff happens to all of us, regardless of our piety or righteousness.Īnother book from the Wisdom tradition, the Book of Job, is about a man whose life and family God destroys, all over a bet with the Satan ( a member of the divine council in the mythology of that day, which name translates “prosecutor” in Hebrew). In a dissenting voice, Qoheleth argues that “time and chance happen to us all” (Ecclesiastes 9:11). In this worldview, goodness and evil are rewarded and punished in this lifetime and, upon death, everyone goes to the same nebulous place or state of being, Sheol. Profoundly profane, this song isn’t that far from the sentiment of the writers of the Wisdom tradition of the Old Testament who began pushing back against the conventional religious belief of that time, which biblical scholars call “Deuteronomistic theology.” This worldview assumed that God is responsible for everything that happens in life, both the good and the bad (yes, the bad). In both performances I’ve seen, a smattering of attendees walk out after this song. This is either the high or low point in the musical, depending on your religious sensibilities. They express their anger through “Hasa Diga Eebowai,” which translates to something not printable here. The song suggests the Ugandans believe in God and implies they hold God responsible for their miserable lot in life. Raise your middle finger to the sky, and curse his rotten name! When the world is getting you down, there’s nobody else to blame! ![]() There’s war, poverty, famine … but having a saying makes it all seem better It’s the only way to get through all these troubled times. In this part of Africa, we all have a saying - whenever something bad happens, we just throw our hands up to the sky and say, “Hasa Diga Eebowai!” The missionaries learn a popular song of the Ugandans: The backdrop for the musical is a remote village in Uganda where most of the villagers have AIDS, and two young Mormon missionaries have been sent to proselytize this primitive people. The musical The Book of Mormon is also, theologically, brutally honest. Neither Smith nor his religion deserve anything less than contempt and ridicule, given the historical record and obviously fanciful tale. The musical mocks this story, rightfully and brutally. ![]()
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