The Book of Job
Palestine does not seem quite so remote to us as it did before Allenby took Jerusalem. Whoever wants to see the survivals of the ancient Semitic world in Palestine must needs go soon. This may be a misfortune, but it may help the world to realize that the Jordan is something more than euphemism for...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Chicago Press
1919
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The biblical world
Year: 1919, Volume: 53, Issue: 1, Pages: 60-64 |
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| Summary: | Palestine does not seem quite so remote to us as it did before Allenby took Jerusalem. Whoever wants to see the survivals of the ancient Semitic world in Palestine must needs go soon. This may be a misfortune, but it may help the world to realize that the Jordan is something more than euphemism for death, and that Mount Zion is not, strictly speaking, heaven. In a similar way the study of the biblical literature from the historical point of view will help us to realize that human problems are not modern inventions, and that most of the answers which we think we have originated, we have inherited. Let us go back to Job again and learn how the ancients thought of the problems our philosophies have not yet fully answered. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The biblical world
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/476181 |