ABSTRACT
The main approach is to view the man Job as evidencing illness and, perhaps, disability, and to discuss the ways that Job or the author of Job chose to respond to this. The narrators, the friends, the various perspectives on Job are all windows into moral possibilities, and as the reader ponders the dialogue, the book of Job does its work of moral formation. This chapter explores the moral visions of Job and Yahweh to see where disability may exist for each of them. Job's final speech in Job 29 and 30, and sections of the speeches of Yahweh at the end of the book, contain material relevant to the issue of disability discrimination. In contrast, God's creative grace shockingly undermines such disability discrimination. If they consider Job's self-presentation of his religious and moral life in Job 29 and 31, he addresses topics of sexual ethics, justice and social obligation, land ethics, and his ultimate allegiance to God.
