God and the sea in Job 38
This article argues that Job 38:8–11 emphasizes God’s control over the Sea while also reframing their relationship. The stanza affirms God’s power over the Sea by fronting a verb of constraint, looping into the previous stanza, and ending with the Sea’s limitation. The stanza reframes God’s relation...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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The National Library of Canada
2012
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The journal of Hebrew scriptures
Year: 2012, Volume: 12, Pages: 1-15 |
| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
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Bible. Ijob 38
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| Summary: | This article argues that Job 38:8–11 emphasizes God’s control over the Sea while also reframing their relationship. The stanza affirms God’s power over the Sea by fronting a verb of constraint, looping into the previous stanza, and ending with the Sea’s limitation. The stanza reframes God’s relation to the Sea by casting the Sea as a newborn, contrasting its expulsion with its containment, depicting God swaddling it, addressing it personally, and anticipating aspects of the second divine speech. |
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| ISSN: | 1203-1542 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of Hebrew scriptures
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5508/jhs.2012.v12.a18 |