Oh That One Would Hear Me! The Dialogue of Job, Unanswered
Job's encounter with God (38:1-42:6) has long been understood as the crux of the Book of Job, leading readers to seek the book's meaning in these cryptic chapters. Based on formal discrepancies in the text and evidence from two Babylonian parallels, the existence of a "dialogue of Job...
| Published in: | The catholic biblical quarterly |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Catholic Biblical Association of America
2020
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| In: |
The catholic biblical quarterly
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Ijob 3-27
/ Bible. Ijob 29-31
/ Ludlul bēl nēmeqi
/ Babylonische Theodizee
/ Theodicy
/ Theophany
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BC Ancient Orient; religion HB Old Testament NBC Doctrine of God |
| Further subjects: | B
Biblical scholars
B Dialogue B Prose B Theodicy B Biblical Theology B Poetry B INCONSISTENCY (Logic) B Theophanies B Genre B social location B Book of Job B Theophany |
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| Summary: | Job's encounter with God (38:1-42:6) has long been understood as the crux of the Book of Job, leading readers to seek the book's meaning in these cryptic chapters. Based on formal discrepancies in the text and evidence from two Babylonian parallels, the existence of a "dialogue of Job" (chaps. 3-27; 29-31) is proposed, which was composed independently not only from the prose tale (chaps. 1-2; 42:7-17) but also from the theophany. As this original poetic composition made no appeal to a divine epiphany, its depiction of a suffering and persuasive protagonist served provocatively to challenge traditional answers to the question of theodicy, rather than offer a solution of its own. |
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| ISSN: | 2163-2529 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The catholic biblical quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cbq.2020.0129 |