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God's Answer To Job

God's Answer To Job GOD'S ANSWER TO JOB by ATHALYA BRENNER Haifa To Ruth Stadtler I God's answer to Job (chs. xxxviii-xli) is, at best, enigmatic. It seems to raise problems instead of solving them. Placed as it is after Elihu's speeches, and not directly following the dialogues of Job and his friends, how does it relate to those cycles of arguments and coun- terarguments ? In what way is the answer relevant to Job's problems as he himself defines them within the main body of the book? Does it provide a satisfying solution? Conversely, in what way-if at all- does Job's reply to God's speeches clarify God's intent? Presumably, God's words should constitute the climax to the book as a whole, and elaborate the religious philosophy of the author who composed these chapters. In order to answer these preliminary questions we must first consider the following points: a. What are Job's problems, as he himself sees them? They can be schematically divided into three main categories. They are, first and foremost, the practical hardships of which we hear from the prose narrative (chs. i-ii) onwards: Job suffers physically, economically, socially, and emotionally. On the next level, and intertwined with the mundane http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Vetus Testamentum Brill

God's Answer To Job

Vetus Testamentum , Volume 31 (2): 129 – Jan 1, 1981

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Brill
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© 1981 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0042-4935
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1568-5330
DOI
10.1163/156853381X00019
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Abstract

GOD'S ANSWER TO JOB by ATHALYA BRENNER Haifa To Ruth Stadtler I God's answer to Job (chs. xxxviii-xli) is, at best, enigmatic. It seems to raise problems instead of solving them. Placed as it is after Elihu's speeches, and not directly following the dialogues of Job and his friends, how does it relate to those cycles of arguments and coun- terarguments ? In what way is the answer relevant to Job's problems as he himself defines them within the main body of the book? Does it provide a satisfying solution? Conversely, in what way-if at all- does Job's reply to God's speeches clarify God's intent? Presumably, God's words should constitute the climax to the book as a whole, and elaborate the religious philosophy of the author who composed these chapters. In order to answer these preliminary questions we must first consider the following points: a. What are Job's problems, as he himself sees them? They can be schematically divided into three main categories. They are, first and foremost, the practical hardships of which we hear from the prose narrative (chs. i-ii) onwards: Job suffers physically, economically, socially, and emotionally. On the next level, and intertwined with the mundane

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Published: Jan 1, 1981

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