User:Vejlefjord/Job - draft

Job and the deuteronomic tradition The Deuteronomic tradition interpreted afflictions as retribution for sin. The Book of Job refuted this tradition by narrative and explicitly. . In the narrative, Job was “blameless and upright,” yet God afflicted him. In dialogue with his friends, Job explicitly refuted the Deuteronomic tradition: God “destroys both the blameless and the wicked.”