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<p>The Book of Job remembers it through just the discourses. It remembers entire conversations, entire histories of friendship, through the lens of those two weeks Job spent in the cold fire pit, covered with ashes and sores. It remembers them all through discourses and speeches and prayers.
Perhaps strangest of all, though, it remembers them disjoint and out of order.</p>
<p>Edward L. Greenstein discusses the transpositions, interpositions, and interpolations that go into the book of Job. Take, for instance, Job&rsquo;s first speech. ((end with vision such that Eliphaz can reference it, despite no one else mentioning that.))&#160;<a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:background-remember" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">&#8617;</a></p>
<p>The Book of Job remembers it through just the discourses. It remembers entire conversations, entire histories of friendship, through the lens of those two weeks Job spent in the cold fire pit, covered with ashes and sores. It remembers them all through discourses and speeches and prayers. Perhaps strangest of all, though, it remembers them disjoint and out of order.</p>
<p>Edward L. Greenstein discusses the transpositions, interpositions, and interpolations that go into the book of Job. Take, for instance, Job&rsquo;s first speech. &ldquo;For many reasons,&rdquo; he writes, &ldquo;the passage 4:12-21 should be read here, right after chapter 3, as the conclusion of Job&rsquo;s first speech.&rdquo; \parencite[16]{greenstein} In that speech, Job bemoans the horrors that have befallen him and his family, spelling out in poetic detail all of the ways he wishes he&rsquo;d never been born.Where, in the traditional ordering, this would lead to Eliphaz&rsquo;s first speech, Greenstein instead places a description of a vision that had, in those orderings, been given to Eliphaz. He provides three reasons: in similar tales, it is the complainant who receives a vision; Job, rather than his friends, receives the theophany in this story; and both Job and Eliphaz himself refer to Job&rsquo;s vision in later chapters.</p>
<p>I can&rsquo;t speak to the details beyond this and a few mentions in the Apocrypals episode on the Book of Job. Both describe the ways in which the original story would have been kept on leaves of papyrus, how easy it would have been for such leaves to be shuffled &mdash; accidentally or intentionally &mdash; by some time-forgotten redacter.</p>
<p>The Book of Job remembers its events out of order, and attempts to fix it, whether its addressed explicitly in the text as Greenstein does or through footnotes as Alter and the NOAB editors do, cannot be done so without addressing this fact.&#160;<a class="footnote-backref" href="#fnref:background-remember" title="Jump back to footnote 1 in the text">&#8617;</a></p>
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