Citation

Cho PKK. Biblical Interp. 2019; 27(2): 208-234.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Brill Academic Publishers)

DOI

10.1163/15685152-00272P03

PMID

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Abstract

Job compares himself time and again to defeated and trapped animals in the poetic core of the Book of Job. God, in responding to Job, describes in loving detail, as would a proud parent her children, the animals that populate creation. This paper argues that the Joban Poet uses animal imagery to allow Job to express an evolving sense of his traumatized self and the world and God to affirm the beauty and vitality of creation and, indirectly, also of Job who has come to think of himself as a trapped and hunted animal. © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2019.

Language: en

Keywords

Entrapment; Defeat; Job; Animal imagery