Books

What’s one book if everyone read and understood the same way you do, the world would significantly improve?

OSS + Rust. I have one goal in life: the ability to stop thinking at will

I love this. The best answer to the question of theodicy.

Saint Paulite, husband to a Seattleite, daddio to two San Francisqueños • @purple #281 • nf.td/pmb

My reading is somewhat different. In my reading, Job’s concept of God, the arguments and his interpretation of events are entirely made up in his own mind. He causes his own suffering and he comes to realize this in the end. The truth then sets him free.

This interpretation is supported by the original Hebrew text, but not by the canonical Christian translation that was censored/mistranslated. I recommend Stephen Mitchell’s version for a good modern English translation of the Hebrew.

See the introduction to this book: https://stephenmitchellbooks.com/translations-adaptations/the-book-of-job/

Granted there are different readings/interpretations across the great traditions — and even poetic/literary ones — but would be interested to know the source of the claim of censorship/mistranslation?