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...

the friends become comic characters, and their pretentious pose vis-à-vis Job and God is exposed and ridiculed. 4.0 When one examines the speeches of Job it is all but impossible to find any systematic and orderly progression—despite the best efforts of scholars. Rather the poet has built a rambling discursiveness into the dialogues which seems to heighten the sense of chaos that is so terribly threatening. I want to highlight two facets of this discursiveness. First, one notices that the poet

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