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writing/3/unknown-things/iyov/1-framing-devices.md

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 In the Hebrew Bible, it is set in the *Ketuvim* (writings, the 'kh' in Tanakh) between Proverbs and The Song of Songs. In the Christian bible, it is set at the beginning of the poetic books, between the prophets and Psalms.
 
-In both cases, it is classified within the genre of wisdom literature. That is, its goal is one of scholarly and religious wisdom rather than of origin stories (as is the case with much of the books of the Torah and the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles) or prophecy (as is the case with *Nevi'im* and Revelation).  This sets it among Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Proverbs, and the like.
+In both cases, it is classified within the genre of wisdom literature. That is, its goal is one of scholarly and religious wisdom rather than of origin stories (as is the case with much of the books of the Torah and the Gospels and Acts of the Apostles) or prophecy (as is the case with *Nevi'im* and Revelation).  This sets it among Ecclesiastes,[^1qohelet] Song of Songs, Proverbs, and the like.
 
 Perhaps unique among wisdom literature, however, it seems to have one core thesis. Ecclesiastes has the core theses of a life well lived, self-created meaning, and so on, while Psalms, Proverbs, Wisdom, and Sirach are largely compilations of various forms of wisdom.
 
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 There is a saying that, with near-death experiences, there are two likely outcomes. One is that you become a braver, more vivacious person. You live your life all the fuller because you got so close to not living at all. After all, if you have been given a second chance, why not?
 
-But still, there's that second option: you become consumed by fear.
+But still, there's that second option: you become consumed by fear. You freeze up and do not leave the house. Any potential source of death is a thing to become avoided.[^1avoided]
     
 This is no value judgement. To be consumed by fear after having your own mortality stand up before you, sneer down its nose, and give you a playful shove bears no shame. It is an honest acceptance of who you are in the face of the enormity of the universe.
 
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 Alter argues that the names that Job gives his new daughters points to a change. "The writer may have wanted to intimate that after all Job's suffering, which included hideous disfigurement and violent loss, a principle of grace and beauty enters his life in the restoration of his fortunes." \parencite[579]{alter} This is indeed a beautiful take on it, too. Job comes out the other side and names his daughters after growing things, beautiful things. Dove and Cinnamon and Horn of Eyeshade, the most beautiful in the land and a sign of Job's joy in living.
 
-One worries, however, that this is not what happened. Folktales are folktales and there is only so much we can tease out of the text itself. That Job names his daughters and lives another 140 years before dying of old age provides little enough context as to his state of mind. We, of course, have other resources. The Anglicans have their three-legged stool --- scripture, tradition, reason --- and the Methodists their Wesleyan quadrilateral --- which adds 'experience' --- and so we have at our disposal tradition, reason, and experience beyond just the scripture itself.
+One worries,[^1iworry] however, that this is not what happened. Folktales are folktales and there is only so much we can tease out of the text itself. That Job names his daughters and lives another 140 years before dying of old age provides little enough context as to his state of mind. We, of course, have other resources. The Anglicans have their three-legged stool --- scripture, tradition, reason --- and the Methodists their Wesleyan quadrilateral --- which adds 'experience' --- and so we have at our disposal tradition, reason, and experience beyond just the scripture itself.
 
-So far, however, we have just looked at the framing device. Happily-ever-afters are for folktales, yes, but our folktale occupies only 1/14th of the book itself.
+So far, however, we have just looked at the framing device. Happily-ever-afters are for folktales, yes, but our folktale occupies only 1/14th of the book itself. What remains is the denser part and, should we see change in Job, it is perhaps here that we will.
 
 [^1revelation]: Revelation is unimportant to this discussion, anyway. There is much that falls out of its existence that I care very much about, of course. I care about the way it is used, and while I will be discussing the way that Job is used, I also care about the text, which is not something I can say about Revelation.
 
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     > \parencite[3]{eigengrau}
     
     Our lives as a whole --- indeed, as a spiral --- might yet have use for interstitial, intercalary days, intercalary time. An intriguing thought, is it not?
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+[^1qohelet]: If Job is worth an essay, Ecclesiastes is worth a book. I do not yet have that in me.
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+[^1avoided]: It need not be permanent, of course. When the me who I was died and I lived my intercalary life, terror filled me, yes, but not for long. Matthew died, and I was nothing but fear for years, and then Madison was born, replacing fear.
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+[^1iworry]: Or, well, I worry. I do not think many apologists worry, and this is not a work of apologetics.