Stanford University Press
Job
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René Girard
About this book
What do we know about the Book of Job? Not very much. The hero complains endlessly. He has just lost his children all his livestock. He scratches his ulcers. The misfortunes of which he complains are all duly enumerated in the prologue. They are misfortunes brought on him by Satan with God's permission. We think we know, but are we sure? Not once in the Dialogues does Job mention either Satan or anything about his misdeeds. Could it be that they are too much on his mind for him to mention them? Possibly, yet Job mentions everything else, and does much more than mention. He dwells heavily on the cause of his misfortune, which is none of those mentioned in the prologue. The cause is not divine, satanic nor physical, but merely human.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
v - I THE CASE OF JOB
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1 Job the Victim of his People
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2 Job the Idol of his People
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3 The Ancient Trail Trodden by the Wicked
14 - II MYTHOLOGY AND TRUTH
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4 The Celestial Armies
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5 Realism and Transfiguration
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6 Oedipus and Job
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7 'Jezebel Trampled to Death under the Horses' Hooves'
41 - III MIMESIS
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8 'A Whole Country Possessed by Saint Vitus's Dance'
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9 Psalm 73
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10 The Mountain Torrent
60 - IV FROM MECHANISM TO RITUAL
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11 The Public Tophet
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12 The Orphan Chosen by Lots
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13 Origin and Repetition
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14 Job and the Sacred King
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15 The Evolution of Ritual
91 - V THE VICTIM'S CONFESSION
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16 A Totalitarian Trial
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17 Retribution
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18 Job's Lapses
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19 'My Defender Lives'
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20 'A Bloody Ransom to Still the City's Frenzy'
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21 The God of Victims
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Notes
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Index
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