Allusive and Elusive

Download or read book Allusive and Elusive written by Cooper Smith and published by Biblical Interpretation. This book was released on 2022 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elihu is among the most diversely evaluated characters in the Hebrew Bible. Attending to the inner-Joban allusions in the Elihu speeches (Job 32-37) provides both an explanation and appreciation for this diversity. After carefully defining allusion, this work identifies and interprets twenty-three allusions in Job 32-37 that refer to Job 1-31 in order to understand both their individual significance in the Elihu speeches and their collective significance as a compositional feature of the unit. This allusiveness is shown to both invite and explain the varied assessments of Elihu's merits in the history of interpretation"--