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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...

morning, shown dawn its place?” (38:12). “Do you send bolts of lightning to go forth and say to you, ‘Here we are’?” Only two of the questions are genuine questions: In 38:19 God asks, “What is the way to where the light dwells, and darkness—where is its place?” But here too the question is essentially a statement of Job’s ignorance and is subordinated to a statement of his lack of power: “… so that you could take it to its territory, show (it) the path to its house” (38:20). The question in 38:24,
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