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The Eschatological Judgment In Job 19:21-29 : An Exegetical Study, Gordon E. Christo
The Eschatological Judgment In Job 19:21-29 : An Exegetical Study, Gordon E. Christo
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Practically all scholars today acknowledge the juridical features of the book of Job. The purpose of this study is to identify the legal event that Job is understood to believe would take place in the eschaton.
Chapter 1 first analyzes the significance of the place of our passage in the structure of the book. Job 19 is found to be the center of a structurally balanced composition. Further study of structure reveals that v s s . 25-27b can be viewed as: (1) the heart of the chiasm in 19:21-29, (2) the node of that speech, and (3) a pivot …