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Communications

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This communication presents a scholarly response to Rabbi Myron Fenster's review of "The Book of God and Man—A Study of Job" published in Conservative Judaism's Spring 1967 issue. The author addresses several methodological and interpretive issues raised in the review concerning the biblical book of Job. Key points of discussion include disagreement with Yehezkiel Kaufmann's early dating of Job, which forms part of Kaufmann's broader chronological approach to Wisdom literature. The author argues against Kaufmann's methodological reliance on arguments e silentio, proposing instead that prophetic, wisdom, and psalmic traditions were contemporaneous rather than consecutive, representing simultaneous rather than sequential developments in Hebrew thought. The response particularly defends the author's interpretation of the God-speeches in Job, arguing that the significance lies not merely in God's appearance to Job, but in the specific content of the divine response. The author maintains that the lengthy, elaborate nature of God's speeches, structured in two sections without overt reference to Job's complaint, indicates that the meaning resides in what God says rather than simply that God responds. The communication exemplifies scholarly discourse on biblical interpretation while acknowledging the legitimacy of diverse interpretive approaches to this complex biblical text.

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    Published 1967

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