[July 2006 journal entry]
How is death viewed within the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm? in Jewish theology? within the story/play Job? The ‘scrapheap’ Job’s comments about death (3:13ff) present the first description of death in the story/play. Subsequent descriptions of death need to be tracked through the story/play. How do these descriptions of death vary? Note (Peterson’s wording) “resting in peace”, “asleep”, “feeling no pain”, “in the company of kings and statesmen” . . . – the ‘scrapheap’ Job anticipates none of these rather benign experiences Eliphaz associates with the death of the blessed.
How is death viewed within the ‘religious’ T/O paradigm? in Jewish theology? within the story/play Job? The ‘scrapheap’ Job’s comments about death (3:13ff) present the first description of death in the story/play. Subsequent descriptions of death need to be tracked through the story/play. How do these descriptions of death vary? Note (Peterson’s wording) “resting in peace”, “asleep”, “feeling no pain”, “in the company of kings and statesmen” . . . – the ‘scrapheap’ Job anticipates none of these rather benign experiences Eliphaz associates with the death of the blessed.
