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Beyond Justice: Death And The Retribution Principle In The Book Of Job, Varunaj Churnai
Beyond Justice: Death And The Retribution Principle In The Book Of Job, Varunaj Churnai
Doctor of Philosophy Dissertation
Churnai, Varunaj., “Beyond Justice: Death and the Retribution Principle in the Book of Job.” Ph.D. diss., Concordia Seminary, 2010. 232 pp.
In recent decades, scholars have tended to interpret what Job says about death either as part of the broader reading of the Old Testament about death, or by imposing ancient Near Eastern mythological concepts upon the text of Job, read apart from the Old Testament’s wisdom tradition. This dissertation attempts to redress the latter trend of interpretation by articulating that what Job says about death is related to Job’s struggle to understand his relationship to God in relation to …