Job Readings: Tsevat, Gordis or Newsom

1. Your essay should be word-processed, double-spaced, one-inch to one and one-half inch margins. It should be spell-checked. Pages Numbered. Font no smaller than 12 point.

2. You should have a cover page with title, date, topic/prompt, and your name. (You can simply cut and paste the topic/prompt from the list below onto your cover page.)

3. Number each paragraph. Bold your thesis. After the end of the essay, attach an OUTLINE of the essay with the thesis clearly stated and at minimum a line for each paragraph.

4. The essay should be approximately two to three pages long (not including the title page or Works Consulted page).

5. You must include a Works Consulted/Cited Page.  You need not consult any other sources than what we have read for class except as mentioned in the prompts below.. Those sources and any other sources you consult (if you do so) must be included in your Works Consulted/Cited and cited in-text or in footnotes/endnotes. CAREFUL AND CORRECT CITATION IS REQUIRED. WHEN IN DOUBT, CITE. Remember that simply paraphrasing or changing every third word is not OK. Quote and cite or radically summarize and cite. Use quotation marks when quoting or indent if quote is five lines or longer. Guessing at where your information comes from is not OK. Use page numbers in your in-text citations, footnotes or endnotes. Book or journal titles are italicized or underlined.  You may consult Citation for Biblical Studies for information related to citing biblical studies sources.

6.    Click here for the Grading Rubric for the essay.  This is a checklist I will use in grading the essay.

Please read one of the readings on Job by Tsevat, Gordis or Newsom.  The Tsevat and Gordis readings are on e-reserve at http://db.lib.uidaho.edu/ereserve.  The Newsom Reading is "The Book of Job as Polyphonic Text".  It can be accessed through the Find Articles feature on the library's website.  Click R for the Religion and Philosophy Index.  Then enter Newsom, Carol A. in the search box and check the box for full text.  I have added Newsom for those of you who might be interested in a sort of postmodern/polyphonic reading of Job.  You probably shouldn't pick it if you don't know what postmodern or polyphonic means.

Outline the position/interpretation offered in the article/chapter and describe at least one key strength and one key weakness of the position/interpretation.