TY - JOUR PY - 2019// TI - "I have become a brother of Jackals": Evolutionary psychology and suicide in the book of job JO - Biblical interpretation A1 - Cho, P.K.-k. SP - 208 EP - 234 VL - 27 IS - 2 N2 - 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.

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LA - en SN - 0927-2569 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685152-00272P03 ID - ref1 ER -