RE: Job
May 5, 2022 at 11:05 am
(This post was last modified: May 5, 2022 at 11:07 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(May 5, 2022 at 7:21 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Concerning the story of Job.
It' s a STORY. Fiction. It doesn' t mean any more the one about Luke using the force to blow up the death star......
Well, stories mean what the particular reader decides they mean. To some, Moby Dick means that there is a constant epistemological conflict which may never be resolved. To others, it’s a how-to whaling manual.
Similarly, the fictive Job narrative can either be a treatise on the value of suffering, or a nightmare-inducing bedtime story. I’m firmly in the latter camp.
It isn’t about the factual truth of Story that matters, but whether a specific story is a good one or a bad one.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
