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DOES JOB FEAR GOD FOR NAUGHT?
Author(s) -
TICCIATI SUSANNAH
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0025.2005.00289.x
Subject(s) - obedience , terminology , interpretation (philosophy) , epistemology , process (computing) , social psychology , philosophy , psychology , law , sociology , political science , computer science , linguistics , operating system
This article offers an interpretation of the book of Job which construes its principle agenda to be a tackling of the problem of obedience. Focusing on Job 9 and its legal terminology, it explores the dynamic of Job's integrity as that which emerges in the process of his wrestling with the law: while it transcends the law, it cannot exist apart from this process. From this a historical account of obedience is developed which can be reduced to neither act nor being.