Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Bill Rea <cctr114 AT it.canterbury.ac.nz>]

Reggie wrote:-

>What is most important in this regard is that Miles (*God: A
>Biography*. New York: Vintage Books, 1996. p.11) writes, "Within the Book
>of Job itself, God's climactic and overwhelming reply seems to silence
>Job.  But reading from the end of the Book of Job onward, we see that it
>is Job who has silenced God."
>    In other words, Miles' interpretation depends of Job depends on a
>particular, diachronic (p.13 and elsewhere) way of reading the whole
>Hebrew Bible.  For those whose faith advocates the Christian canonical
>ordering (an issue obviously not resolvable in this forum) or who prefer
>to read each Biblical book on its own terms, Miles' approach is not
>especially useful. 

Thank you for posting this. I was saddened to find that having
worked through the passage, posted on the topic and read others'
thoughtful posts, that there was a hidden agenda in the original
post. The ``Gospel of Ruth'' stuff was so absurd I didn't respond.
Now I discover this is part of the same garbage.

Having been taken for a sucker, I bow out of this discussion. 


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