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 <p>All stories are perforce interpolations within real events, or at least the initial imaginings of fictional events. The story is not written the events happen. All stories, all conversations. They all occur at least at one layer of remove and at least a fraction of a second too late.</p>
 <p>Stories are as bound to time as we are, and all we can do is steal back a little bit of memory through however many words. All we can do with these memories pinned in place is regard them from a second level of distance and make guesses. Guesses as to meaning, guesses as to content, guesses as to the context in which those memories might have led to their origin.</p>
 <p>At a guess, there is no book in the Bible buried deeper under layers of guesses than Job.<sup id="fnref:1revelation"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1revelation">1</a></sup></p>
-<p>Perhaps it is the dire nature by which both approach the world. Job takes a look at the world, heaves a weary sigh, and says, &ldquo;I suppose this is it. This is the lot we have been given in life.&rdquo; While Revelation looks at the world and growls deep in its through, a sound coming from the belly, and says, &ldquo;This must not be it. This cannot be the ways in which the world works.&rdquo;<sup id="fnref:1works"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1works">4</a></sup></p>
-<p>Or perhaps it is the way in which they view death. While Job looks on death almost fondly,<sup id="fnref:1fonddeath"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1fonddeath">2</a></sup> Revelation reiterates the Christian sentiment that death has been defeated in the context of apocalypse. It is no more, and as there is everlasting life beyond it, it is worth considering only in that context and otherwise worth discarding.</p>
+<p>Perhaps it is the dire nature by which both approach the world. Job takes a look at the world, heaves a weary sigh, and says, &ldquo;I suppose this is it. This is the lot we have been given in life.&rdquo; While Revelation looks at the world and growls deep in its throat, a sound coming from the belly, and says, &ldquo;This must not be it. This cannot be the way in which the world works.&rdquo;<sup id="fnref:1works"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1works">4</a></sup></p>
+<p>Or perhaps it is the way in which they view death. While Job looks on death almost fondly,<sup id="fnref:1fonddeath"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1fonddeath">2</a></sup> Revelation reiterates the Christian sentiment that death has been defeated in the context of apocalypse<sup id="fnref:1apocalypse"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1apocalypse">17</a></sup> It is no more, and as there is everlasting life beyond it, it is worth considering only in that context and otherwise worth discarding.</p>
 <p>Additionally, while doubtless Jews may have a dim opinion of Revelation, given its relative irrelevance in their lives, Job has been the subject of both rabbinical teaching and Christian exegesis for centuries now. This may be where it outstrips Revelation in its interest.</p>
 <p>And what interest! As Alter says, &ldquo;The Book of Job is in several ways the most mysterious book of the Hebrew Bible.&rdquo;<sup id="fnref:1judaism"><a class="footnote-ref" href="#fn:1judaism">3</a></sup> \parencite[457]{alter} He then proceeds to discuss the book for eight pages before even getting to the translation (which, while not uncommon among the books in his translation, still stands out as rather a lot of introduction). The editors of the New Oxford Annotated Bible agree on this, saying, &ldquo;Among the books of the Bible, Job is highly unusual, and, unsurprisingly, its force has often been misunderstood or evaded.&rdquo; \parencite[735]{noab} This relative inaccessibility, opaqueness of prose (should one choose to ignore the poetic nature of the central work), and the mixed dates of composition have doubtless played their role in it.</p>
 <p>Chief among those is likely the mixed dates of composition. There appear to be four pieces involved in the book: the framing device, which is perhaps the oldest; the discourse between Job and his friends; the later addition of the Hymn to Wisdom, an interruption from Job in chapter 28; and the addition of the character of Elihu, written perhaps most recently.</p>
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 <p>In fact, the Talmud suggests that &ldquo;Moses wrote his own book, i.e., the Torah, and the portion of Balaam in the Torah, and the book of Job.&rdquo; (Bava Barta 14b, <em>etc.</em>) That it also suggests that Job was among those who returned from the Babylonian exile and that was not real and that it is all an allegory does little to shed light on the matter.&#160;<a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1talmud" title="Jump back to footnote 16 in the text">&#8617;</a></p>
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+<p>That is, &lsquo;a revealing, a pulling back of the curtain&rsquo;.&#160;<a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:1apocalypse" title="Jump back to footnote 17 in the text">&#8617;</a></p>
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