“Bringing Their Gods in Their Hands”: Job and Absolute Orthodoxy

Orthodoxies of all sorts can assume an unhealthy power. This essay proposes a reading of Job that discovers a challenge to the role of dogma. The story demonstrates the failure of the friends' rigid adherence to the sapiential orthodoxy of retribution and reward. It is suggested also that a sim...

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Main Author: Sutherland, Martin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publ. 2001
In: Pacifica
Year: 2001, Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 144-158
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Summary:Orthodoxies of all sorts can assume an unhealthy power. This essay proposes a reading of Job that discovers a challenge to the role of dogma. The story demonstrates the failure of the friends' rigid adherence to the sapiential orthodoxy of retribution and reward. It is suggested also that a similar censure of religious practice is implied. Job's integrity is not confirmed through wisdom or cultic ritual but in meeting YHWH. An essential twist is that, if placed within a framework of encounter, orthodoxy can, after all, play a valid role.
ISSN:1839-2598
Contains:Enthalten in: Pacifica
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/1030570X0101400202