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Job: The Victim of His People

By René Girard

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781503622999
DOI
10.1515/9781503622999
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12655235 bytes)
Pages
180\170
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 13:06:50

Description

What do we know about the Book of Job? Not very much. The hero complains endlessly. He has just lost his children all his livestock. He scratches his ulcers. The misfortunes of which he complains are all duly enumerated in the prologue. They are misfortunes brought on him by Satan with God's permission. We think we know, but are we sure? Not once in the Dialogues does Job mention either Satan or anything about his misdeeds. Could it be that they are too much on his mind for him to mention them? Possibly, yet Job mentions everything else, and does much more than mention. He dwells heavily on the cause of his misfortune, which is none of those mentioned in the prologue. The cause is not divine, satanic nor physical, but merely human.

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