The Book of Job
Written by King James Version
Narrated by Cynthia Bishop, Gerard Moses and Full Cast
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About this audiobook
Job is a good and prosperous man, possible the best man of his time. Then, without warning, all that he has worked for is stripped from him in a sudden series of terrible disasters. Three friends come to visit, supposedly to comfort him. But their accusations that Job must somehow have brought these calamities upon himself spark a debate.
As the four men dispute, in public, the nature of Job’s suffering they delve into ancient questions about the nature of man’s relationship to the Almighty, questions that can only be resolved by the Almight himself.
Experience the power, passion, and poetry of one of the Bible’s most extraordinary stories as never before in this full cast presentation, which is anchored by a remarkable performance from Gerard Moses, who brings depth and dimension to Job, a good man struggling to keep his faith in the face of unbearable calamity.
This is a recording to listen to over and over, for each new hearing will give you additional insight into the mysteries and wonders of this sacred text.
A Full Cast Audio media production.
King James Version
The authors of the King James Bible were forty-seven scholars divided into six committees assigned by King James I the task of creating a new English language translation in 1604. Of the six committees, the First Cambridge group was responsible for the Book of Psalms. While many of the Psalms are attributed to King David, his authorship is considered unlikely however by many biblical scholars.
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Reviews for The Book of Job
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Constant shouting, weaping, spit-flying rage, hours of feaverish astonishingly bad utterly overwraught amaturish overacting!! All yelled at a single mind bruising, pittylessly shrill, unwavering pitch by one middle aged male voice. Any meaning in the text submerged, drowned out, silenced beneath the cacauphany of the storm.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5First time I experienced the entire book of job..Loved the casting!1
I have experienced parts of it...but the dramatic reading made it come alive especially with Covid19 hitting the world. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Still digesting this translation. I've always been confused by the King James version; this translation helps a little bit. Read this for my class at Amherst College.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A fantastic translation and introduction by Stephen Mitchell for one of the more profound books of the Bible, which also reminds me of the Bhagavad Gita. It deals with the question believers wrestle with: how could God let this happen? I have been a good person and do not deserve to suffer, so why me? Or in a larger sense, questions like it for all of humanity's sufferings in the apparent absence of a god.As Mitchell points out, a part of God’s response in this book is to show the vastness and the grandeur of the cosmos. We are so small, and there is no answer to "why me" because it's the wrong question. Mitchell writes: "The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, that whole gorgeous and terrible pageant, were the breath-thin surface of a bubble, and everything else, inside and outside, is pure radiance. Both suffering and joy come then like a brief reflection, and death like a pin."All of our memories, the tender moments and drama, everything that makes up our life, is so fleeting. We cannot possibly comprehend God or the meaning of the universe, and should only simply love everything around us and be kind. As an atheist, what I find incredibly interesting and spiritual about it is that even if I don't believe, I come to these same conclusions. It's one of those things where both paths, seemingly so contradictory, take one to the same place.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5In the introduciton, Mitchell mentions "The only parallel to it in Western literature is Whitman's 'Song of Myself.' [p. xxiii].Among the notes at the back is a list of verses deleted or omitted. In his 'A note on the text,' he explains why.