Re: [asa] On Job

David:
The story about Elijah is in a chapter that begins: "After the death of
Ahab, Moab rebelled against Israel", and this suggests that it could be
"something else."
Don N

David Opderbeck wrote:

> /Each passage in the Bible should be treated
> on its merits --- and that means determining the genre of the passage
> before one proceeds further with intepretation./
>
> True, but we should approach each passage with some consistent,
> generally applicable hermeneutical principles, including the one you
> mention here about genre. Once such principle might be the integrity
> of all the canonical texts, which means we do indeed need to consider
> how our interpretation of any one passage will affect our
> interpretation of any other passage. So I don't think it's /just/ a
> slippery slope to ask, if Job wasn't a real person, what about
> Elijah. This is another way of asking, what hermeneutical principle
> shows the Job story to be mere allegory and the Elijah story to be
> something else?
>
>
> On 10/4/06, *Don Nield* <d.nield@auckland.ac.nz
> <mailto:d.nield@auckland.ac.nz>> wrote:
>
> Don W has introduced a "slippery slope" argument. I consider such
> arguments to be fallacious. Each passage in the Bible should be
> treated
> on its merits --- and that means determining the genre of the passage
> before one proceeds further with intepretation. If that means hard
> work
> for the reader of the Bible, so be it.
> Don N.
>
>
> Don Winterstein wrote:
>
> > Would you assign Jonah similar status? Then, how about Elijah
> calling
> > down fire on the captains of fifty? Once we get started, how do we
> > know where to stop?
> >
> > Don
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > *From:* Carol or John Burgeson <mailto:burgytwo@juno.com
> <mailto:burgytwo@juno.com>>
> > *To:* asa@calvin.edu <mailto:asa@calvin.edu>
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> > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 04, 2006 6:37 AM
> > *Subject:* [asa] On Job
> >
> > Vernon commented: "Can such passages as Job 1:6-12 =
> > and 2:1-7 be 'interpreted' to mean something different from
> their =
> > account of actual meetings, actual discussions and actual
> > consequences?
> > =
> > And if, in your view they must be accepted as real events, what
> > might we
> > =
> > usefully glean from them?"
> >
> > The most reasonable interpretation of Job is that it is a
> morality
> > play.
> > To consider it as sober factual history is ludicrous. Sort
> of like
> > believing ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
> >
> > Burgy
> >
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