Sermon by Jenna Meyers on Job 42:1-6 (and Job more generally) and Mark 10:46-52 recorded October 25th, 2015.
This sermon is in conversation with scholars Raymond Scheindlin and Shaye J.D. Cohen. Playing with the interwoven images of the (Bartimeaus) blind beggar narrative, a relationship is developed to the modern audience, as well as to the Marcan community, who likely heard the story around the fall of the second temple. One of those images is of Jerricho and the walls tumbling down. When there was no reason to hope, their hope in a promised land was realized. Remembering Jerricho, the Marcan community might have found renewed “sight” of hope as they were facing loss and devastation of their own. In both Mark and Job, and potentially for us, hope is found within community and resiliency through story.
