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Death and Survival in the Book of Job - Desymbolization and Traumatic Experience (Hardcover, New)
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Death and Survival in the Book of Job - Desymbolization and Traumatic Experience (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
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The Book of Job functions as literature of survival where the main
character, Job, deals with the trauma of suffering, attempts to
come to terms with a collapsed moral and theological world, and
eventually re-connects the broken pieces of his world into a new
moral universe, which explains and contains the trauma of his
recent experiences and renders his life meaningful again. The key
is Job's death imagery. In fact, with its depiction of death in the
prose tale and its frequent discussions of death in the poetic
sections, Job may be the most death-oriented book in the bible. In
particular, Job, in his speeches, articulates his experience of
suffering as the experience of death. To help understand this focus
on death in Job we turn to the psychohistorian, Robert Lifton, who
investigates the effects on the human psyche of various traumatic
experiences (wars, natural disasters, etc). According to Lifton,
survivors of disaster often sense that their world has "collapsed"
and they engage in a struggle to go on living. Part of this
struggle involves finding meaning in death and locating death's
place in the continuity of life. Like many such survivors, Job's
understanding of death is a flashpoint indicating his bewilderment
(or "desymbolization") in the early portions of his speeches, and
then, later on, his arrival at what Lifton calls "resymbolization,"
the reconfiguration of a world that can account for disaster and
render death - and life - meaningful again.
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