Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising by Katherine E. Southwood

Author:Katherine E. Southwood [Southwood, Katherine E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Bibles, Christian Standard Bible, Dramatized, Education, Teaching Methods & Materials, Arts & Humanities, History, Ancient, General, Language Arts & Disciplines, Rhetoric
ISBN: 9781000163414
Google: 2rjwDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-09-02T03:42:01+00:00

118This connection may be strengthened by the recurrence of the term ‘for nothing’ (חנם) in Job 1:9 and in the next verse of Eliphaz’s speech (Job 22:6).

119Of course, the irony of the use of the word תם here must be noted. This is not the first time the friends have suggested that Job be תם. Refer to note 24 in Chapter 1.

One interesting way of looking at this is through illness narratives. In modern illness narratives people order their experience in terms of what it means to them and to others through narrative. Therefore, narrative provides coherence when it seems there is none, and as a consequence it contributes to the experience of illness. However, there is also a protesting aspect of illness narratives. As Kleinman observes,

The story of sickness may even function as a political commentary, pointing a finger of condemnation at perceived injustice and the personal experience of oppression…. For these reasons, retrospective narratization can readily be shown to distort the actual happenings (the history) of the illness experience, since its raison d’être is not fidelity to historical circumstances but rather significance and validity in the creation of a life story.

(Kleinman 1988:50–51)

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