Dr. John Walton, Job, Lecture 24, Job in the Book of Job
John Walton
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18 August 2016
20 August 2025
Biblical eLearning (http://biblicalelearning.org) presents (audio is also available on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3J1VPzd1WWVUt3gRQhoV5b?si=334ed3239e4f457b): Dr. John Walton (Ph.D. Hebrew Union College) has taught for many years at Wheaton College after twenty years on the faculty of Moody Bible Institute. He has published major commentaries on Genesis and Job in the NIVAC series. His Old Testament textbook, A Survey of the Old Testament, is used in colleges across the country. He has also shaped the thinking of Christians in the area of ancient Near Eastern backgrounds in his IVP Background Commentary and the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary and more recently his books: Lost World of Scripture (IVP), Genesis 1 as Ancient Cosmology (Eisenbrauns), Ancient Near Eastern Thought and the Old Testament (Baker) and many others. Go to https://biblicalelearning.org for full transcripts and audios of these presentations in English, Spanish, and many other languages. There are also AI generated study guides and dialogic Podcast audio summaries there as well. I invite you to click on the "CC" [Closed Captioning] to turn on/off the Closed Captioning option. Outline: 00:21 Introduction 00:45 Job's Role in the Book 2:00 Job's Righteousness 3:03 Why is Job Righteous? 3:45 Job's Piety Petty? 7:45 Job's Integrity 8:22 Job as Self-Righteous 9:29 The Book is about God leading us to Better Responses 11:20 End Dr. Walton's teaching in audio format is now available on Spotify Podcasting [Biblical eLearning - Ted Hildebrandt]: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2XtzJQOHqlsCl8GJyv5aWp?si=17101177dc784dc6
