The Rhetoric of Social Conscience in the Book of Job
This article offers a socio-rhetorical analysis of the book of Job. Rhetorical devices of dramatic irony, ambiguity, overstatement, parody (mock heroic narrative) and contrast are identified. These are seen to indicate an alternative narrative in which Job is a judge being tested for the disillusion...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
2000
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Journal for the study of the Old Testament
Year: 2000, Volume: 25, Issue: 91, Pages: 99-107 |
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