Re: [asa] On Job

After taking much well-directed flak on this, I concede the story might not be as implausible as I made it out to be. You have many unknowns to manipulate, and if you line them up just right, you can make a (tenuous) case.

Don

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  From: David Campbell<mailto:pleuronaia@gmail.com>
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  I was thinking primarily of the theological situation, cf. the Athenian altar to an unknown god. If you believe there's a whole bunch of deities out there, any one of whom might get mad at you and require appropriate propitiation, then a stray foreign prophet might just be the fellow who knows how to make whoever's cranky happy again, especially if your traditional rituals aren't doing much good at the moment.

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  Dr. David Campbell
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  University of Alabama
  "I think of my happy condition, surrounded by acres of clams"

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