"University of California, Berkeley. Department of Near Eastern Studies" . . "University of California, Berkeley. Department of Near Eastern Studies." . "The Book of Job as Hebrew theodicy an ancient near eastern inter- textual conflict between law and cosmology"@en . "The book of Job as Hebrew theodicy : an ancient near eastern intertextual conflict between law and cosmology"@en . . . "Academic theses"@en . "The book of Job is analyzed as Hebrew theodicy centering in a debate over divine justice with the sides forming two major themes--law versus cosmology. The book may be viewed as providing a solution to the problem of divine justice and human suffering in a natural step forward in a long trajectory of its ancient predecessors of theodicy--especially, Ludlul bel nemeqi and The Babylonian Theodicy--on whose foundations it was constructed. For Job, the solution involves two innovations: an appeal to cosmology and use of the combat myth. In order to accomplish this, the poet of the divine speeches utilizes Enuma Elish, Tablets IV and V, whose chaos-creation order he reverses in order to show that evil has not been fully conquered by God. Instead, the divine speeches suggest that divine justice is cosmological rather than judicial."@en . . . . . . . . . . "The Book of Job as Hebrew theodicy : an ancient near eastern inter- textual conflict between law and cosmology"@en . . . "Criticism, interpretation, etc"@en . . . "University of California, Berkeley." . . . . "Bible. Job" . . "Graduate Theological Union" . . "Graduate Theological Union." .