The Reader in Pain: Job as Text and Pretext

Pyper, Hugh S.

doi:10.1093/litthe/7.2.111

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The Poem On Wisdom (Job 28)1

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“…I began this survey of recent readings of Job with the observations of Pyper (1992); his comments on the epilogue also provide a fitting way to close. He pauses over the statement that 'God blessed the latter years of Job's life more than the former'.…”

Section: The Poem On Wisdom (Job 28)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Re-considering Job

Newsom

2007

Currents in Biblical Research

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Although recent scholarship on Job has tended to approach the book from interpretive stances that are at some distance from traditional historical-critical verities, the classic historical-critical questions about the unity of the book continue to dominate the way questions are posed. Hermeneutical disputes about the book focus on interpreters’ decisions to find a way to preserve a resistant Job, or to advocate for an interpretation of the divine speeches that makes comprehensible a Job who ‘sees’ in a new way, and so is willing to renounce his alienation. A new direction of Joban scholarship focuses on the reception history of the book.

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Section: The Poem On Wisdom (Job 28)mentioning

confidence: 99%