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Buyer pays for return shipping See details. See payment details. These are profoundly important to understanding the story. If Job stands legally accused by the satan, God cannot stop the trial without again favoring Job. If God stands legally accused, he cannot stop the trial any more than any other defendant can do so.
To be a just God, God cannot interfere with the justice system that he established, without undoing justice entirely. God does, in fact, become dependent on Job to demonstrate that he is what God says he is, against the view of the satan. Jobs failure to blaspheme God in the face of his disasters does, indeed, exonerate God from the satans charge. I am less convinced that Job has to, or does, come to believe in Gods absolute sovereign freedom to give and take as he pleases in the process 8.
This position and all traditional readings of the book of Job simply fail to take the issue of Jobs potential blasphemy seriously. Yet, hardly any readings name what is at stake, that is, whether or not Job has a blasphemous intention for which he has not done ritual atonement, as he has done for his children And why might that be true, according to the satan? Because God has protected Job from his blasphemous intention by rewarding him instead of punishing him.
The satan alleges that, if these rewards should be withdrawn, the guilty act would surely follow the guilty mind. If we understand this, the whole book, including the Elihu passages, makes much more sense. Whybray, in ignoring law completely, is unable to take the last step of the journey his is on. God is dependent on Job to exonerate him. This has profound theological implications as to the idea of Gods sovereign freedom. God cannot be wholly independent if he is dependent on Job for anything.
In truth, relationship always demands that one surrender a certain degree of freedom. The balance between the independence and dependence of both parties in any relationship is always something of a dance. Love is freely given, but it is a risk to give because one must surrender some degree of freedom in order to account for the needs of the other. Any mentally healthy spouse, lover, or parent can attest to this. My second objection to Whybrays analysis of the prologue is in his depiction of Jobs wife.
Her intervention in the story is characterized as stupid 4 , and she is said to be giving wicked advice He offers additionally: Her advice, Curse God and die, is a deliberate echo of the Satans predictions in and ; and though its intention was probably to bring an end to her husbands suffering, it was a temptation to him to sin He supports other interpreters portrayal of her as the mouthpiece of the Satan 20; This review was published by RBL!
All interpreters have been very hard on her, from the ancient interpreters to present-dayeven feministinterpreters. Job calls Job forward into the struggle with God. She plays a critically important role in the book. If anyone in the book is the mouthpiece of the Satan, it is surely Elihu, who actually accuses Job twice of speaking derision lg, a word within the realm of blasphemy , during his speeches. Lawsuit and litigation obsess you. Beware that wrath does not entice you into derision [lg], and do not let a large bribe turn you aside.
The satan says Job will do the guilty act. Elihu says Job indeed did it. Importantly, Whybray states in his discussion of Elihus appearance and disappearance from the text: Elihu is perhaps best seen as a transitional figure who quite properly disappears once his role has been played outa counterpart to that other figure, the Satan, for whom also there was no further role in the authors scheme Whybray observes the connection between the two characters but does take it much further.
I wouldto suggest that Elihu finishes what the satan began, which is why they come and go from the narrative as they do. I could continue in similar vein with the rest of Whybrays chapters, but I will not in favor of bringing this review to a close. In sum, I believe that Whybray is one of the most insightful and important of Joban interpreters, in that he explains simply some of the standard but complex views of the book; advances some less well accepted ideas; and articulates or begins to formulate some quite innovative ideas that are supported by the text.
This is not, however, a perfect work. I have my critiques; I read some texts 6. See, e. He is, however, hardly alone. The exceptions to this rule are I. Schweitzer also has a sympathetic reading of Mrs. Touchstone 14 [September ]: For my full discussion of Mrs. Harris and G. Archer agree that lg belongs in the constellation of roots meaning blasphemy and slander TWOT Thus, I am reminded of an old joke: It is said that doing biblical studies is a lot like owning a house with ten windows and nine screens: no matter how you arrange them, some flies get in!
This is no truer than when reading the book of Job. Writing a commentary on Jobeven a reader-friendly oneis a very demanding and intricate task, one that will always allow some critic to find the flies that got in. What Whybray accomplished here is both significant and difficult, yet he made it look effortless.
All scholars should be familiar with his reading of the text. It has the added advantage that it is an easy and delightful reading experience. I recommend it highly. Open navigation menu. Close suggestions Search Search. User Settings. Skip carousel. Carousel Previous. Carousel Next. What is Scribd? Uploaded by Sam Lau Yiu Sang.
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