“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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Sage Publ.
2001
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Pacifica
Year: 2001, Volume: 14, Issue: 2, Pages: 144-158 |
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