On January 10, 2017, Benjamin Joseph Cochran, defended his thesis titled Más allá del sufrimiento: un estudio del mensaje de Job, a translation from English into Spanish of a selection of chapters from Beyond Suffering: Discovering the message of Jobby Layton Talbert.
The Thesis Committee, formed by Yákelin Santos Santana, Jane Barnes Slown M.A., and thesis advisor Luis A. García Nevares Ph. D., awarded his thesis the grade sobresaliente.