Semeia 7: Studies in the Book of Job
Overview
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 publish work that reflects a well defined methodology that is appropriate to the material being interpreted.
- Key perspectives on biblical criticism
- Includes bibliographies and index
Top Highlights
“I wish to avoid an oversimplified equation between comedy and laughter and want to focus rather on that vision of comedy which has two central ingredients: first, its perception of incongruity that moves in the realm of the ironic, the ludicrous, and the ridiculous; and secondly, a basic plot line that leads ultimately to the happiness of the hero and his restoration to a serene and harmonious society6.” (Pages 4–5)
“That the book of Job experienced several stages of growth is no doubt true, but that fact does not exempt the interpreter from the responsibility of coming to grips with the book’s final form.” (Page 2)
“What this observation reveals is that Job is keenly aware that he is fighting a battle on two fronts against two different adversaries: his erstwhile human friends have become his enemies (cf. 6:14ff.; 19:19), and God, likewise his onetime friend (29:4), has become his foe.” (Page 14)
“one of the long-standing positions is that Job is a tragedy” (Page 2)
“Job is convinced that his suffering is not attributable to any particular sin, he senses that his misfortune is symptomatic of a grave and general disorder of the universe.” (Page 15)
- Luis Alonso Schökel
- James Crenshaw
- John A. Miles, Jr.
- Robert Polzin
- David Robertson
- William Urbrock
- J. William Whedbee
- James G. Williams
- Title: Semeia 7: Studies in the Book of Job
- Editors: David A. Robertson and Robert Polzin
- Publisher: Society of Biblical Literature
- Publication Date: 1977
- Pages: 154
David A. Robertson is a columnist, author, and pastor of St. Peter's Free Church of Scotland in Dundee.
Robert Polzin is Director of School of Comparative Literary Studies and Professor of Religion, Carleton University. He is author of Moses and the Deuteronomist and Samuel and the Deuteronomist, both volumes are in a series of four books on the Deuteronomic History, as well as Late Biblical Hebrew.
