[July 2006 journal entry]
Eliphaz does not start with “just believe”. However, he and the ‘scrapheap’ Job differ radically re what/how to remember. He tries to redirect the ‘scrapheap’ Job’s focus from dwelling on exceptions that do not fit the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm to dwelling on the reassuring norms of the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm.
Eliphaz does not start with “just believe”. However, he and the ‘scrapheap’ Job differ radically re what/how to remember. He tries to redirect the ‘scrapheap’ Job’s focus from dwelling on exceptions that do not fit the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm to dwelling on the reassuring norms of the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm.
