Alfred Romero
2/22/2023
Professor Frank
LIL 420
Metacommentary On Original Paper
My revision project is based on a paper I wrote my sophomore year in the fall semester in the course “Wisdom Literatures”, where I analyzed the “Book of Job” and came to the conclusion that the Lord didn’t answer Job’s main question. I instead directed the end of my essay towards the concept of the wisdom behind Job’s decision of not challenging the Lord. But even with my perspective towards Job’s decision, an array of questions still remains. In my meeting with Professor Anderson, the Professor who taught Wisdom Literatures, we discussed a sort of process towards approaching this project.
The first part would be to discuss more on the debate behind whether or not the Lord actually answered the question Job proposed. For those who haven’t read this work, this question from Job is a personal proposed question as to why the horrible things the Lord inflicted upon him happened if he did no wrong doings. This question can be broadened to a global perspective. Why do the innocent suffer?
From this question, a variety of different responses can be formulated. At this point, I’d be fleshing out these responses, for lack of a better word, in order to gain a better insight into the different perspectives behind the major philosophical question. This would transition to utilizing certain sources that Professor Anderson gave me that would serve as support for the different perspectives that come out of Job’s story. Another idea would be to compare different religions’ perspectives on the question Job asks, but I’m leaning towards revolving around sticking with the sources I have.
So, this project really comes in two parts. The first part would be to unpack that final part of the “Book of Job” and go more in depth towards Job’s question and the Lord’s response. The second part would transition towards the analysis of the different responses to this story.
