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Semeia 19: The Book of Job and Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics is unavailable, but you can change that!

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...

from “hearsay,” to its referent, the “eyesight.” And Ricoeur adds: “The parable should be interpreted metaphorically because it pretends to be plain and trivial” (Semia 1975:98) whereas it may “be converted into a proverb or an eschatological saying” (Ricoeur, 102). Such a convertibility to proverbial expression is for Ricoeur a clear sign of the parabolic character of the discourse. Along that line, my contention is that the name Yhwh plays in Job 38–52 the same role as, e.g., the notion of “Kingdom
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