Semeia 7: Studies in the Book of Job (Biblia.com)

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Semeia is an experimental journal devoted to the exploration of new and emergent areas and methods of biblical criticism. Studies employing the methods, models, and findings of linguistics, folklore studies, contemporary literary criticism, structuralism, social anthropology, and other such disciplines and approaches, are invited. Although experimental in both form and content, Semeia proposes to...

universe. As D. Robertson has argued, what began as a test of Job has now turned into a test of God (451); thus the moral vision of the universe comes to stand under a severe and searching scrutiny. Since Job is convinced that his suffering is not attributable to any particular sin, he senses that his misfortune is symptomatic of a grave and general disorder of the universe. His language of attack against God is probably the most searing in the Hebrew Bible. God often emerges as a grotesque, demonic

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