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Vedic (or other Eastern) imagery in the Book of Job?

 
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seattlegal
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 24, 2023 2:49 pm    Post subject: Vedic (or other Eastern) imagery in the Book of Job? Reply with quote

The book of Job begins:
Job 1 1-3 wrote:
1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was blameless and upright, and one who feared God and shunned evil. 2 And seven sons and three daughters were born to him. 3 Also, his possessions were seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, five hundred female donkeys, and a very large household, so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the East.

Job was from the East. I had always thought of the Book Of Job as having a higly Zoroastrian element to it, because in this book Satan is actually personified and speaking to God, much like the dualistic pair of Ahura Mazda and Ahriman of Zoroastrianism. However, when I made a reference to leviathan from Job 41 as a parallel to "The Shadow" of the Unconscious mind, a Hindu made a connection between leviathan and makara of Hindu mythology. Since Job was "from the East," I'm wondering just how much imagery parallel to Hinduism it contains.

Anyone interested in exploring this?
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PostPosted: Fri Dec 28, 2023 4:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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