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...

my judgment, the broad, overarching category of comedy is able to illuminate best the wealth of disparate genres, formulas, and motifs which are now interwoven in the total structure of the book. 0.4 At first blush many will recoil from the suggestion that Job is comedy and will dismiss my thesis as downright crazy or a bad joke in the worst tradition of gallows’ humor. How can a book so filled with agony and despair, so dominated with the images of suffering and death, be considered a comedy? This

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