The Return of the Accuser as God’s Defender: A Diabolical Reception of Elihu in Elie Wiesel’s The Trial of God
While a wealth of recent scholarship and popular reception has suggested the Elihu speeches in Job 32-37 are redundant and perhaps do not belong, still others maintain the character’s status as revelatory and divinely-inspired within the narrative. This article highlights Elie Wiesel’s little-notice...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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| In: |
Journal of the bible and its reception
Year: 2023, Volume: 10, Issue: 2, Pages: 245-259 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bible. Ijob 32-37
/ Reception
/ Wiesel, Elie 1928-2016, Procès de Shamgorod tel qu’il se déroula le 25 février 1649
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism CD Christianity and Culture HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Elihu
B Occupation B testament of job B Elie Wiesel B Reception History |
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| Summary: | While a wealth of recent scholarship and popular reception has suggested the Elihu speeches in Job 32-37 are redundant and perhaps do not belong, still others maintain the character’s status as revelatory and divinely-inspired within the narrative. This article highlights Elie Wiesel’s little-noticed contribution to the discourse on Elihu through a reading of Wiesel’s play, The Trial of God . The play expands on an interpretation of Elihu first found in the pseudepigraphal Testament of Job and suggests that Elihu is a truly diabolical character who threatens the faithfulness of the righteous sufferer. This article begins with a brief survey of recent scholarly reception of Elihu, then offers a close reading of Wiesel’s analogue to Elihu in his play. The article concludes with a discussion of the ways Wiesel’s reception of Elihu can aid biblical scholars and theologians in their work on the Book of Job. |
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| ISSN: | 2329-4434 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of the bible and its reception
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/jbr-2022-0008 |
