Single Idea 7469

[catalogued under 29. Religion / D. Religious Issues / 2. Immortality / a. Immortality]

Full Idea

The entire Book of Job is concerned with faith and suffering and inequality in a life where there is no hereafter (all the rewards promised to the Jews by their God are worldly).

Gist of Idea

There is no hereafter in the Book of Job

Source

report of Anon (Job) (18: Book of Job [c.535 BCE]) by Peter Watson - Ideas Ch.5

Book Reference

Watson,Peter: 'Ideas: from fire to Freud' [Phoenix 2006], p.143


A Reaction

It is extraordinary how such ideas can creep into the great religions, and then become taken for granted, as if no one had ever doubted them.