ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that the Book of Job depicts the experience of a man going through a catastrophic emotional crisis, which is resolved only when he arrives at a new understanding of the divine. When analyzing Job’s experience, the depth psychologist reads the Book of Job as a mythic text. A story like that of Job is important for what it tells us about people’s beliefs and for the kind of God-image it depicts. The chapter explores some of insights that the book has to offer into the problems raised by the traditional Judeo-Christian God-image, as identified by Jung in his Answer to Job. The Book of Job is one of the later works of the Hebrew Bible. The story is that Satan has questioned Job’s faithfulness by asking God if Job’s goodness and piety might be merely the result of God’s having blessed Job with riches and success. Evil and suffering quickly follow the conversation between God and Satan.
