Job¡¯s Story and Family Health

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• 作者：Anthony F. Badalamenti
• 关键词：Job ; Family dynamics ; Decoding
• 刊名：Journal of Religion and Health
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：June, 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：48
• 期：2
• 页码：200-216
• 全文大小：174.2 KB

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This paper examines the book of Job for encoded psychological meaning. Its main conclusion is that the story imagery expresses a need to rectify fatherly and parental oblivion for a child who is the object of the destructive envy of a sibling. A family dynamic is constructed from the story’s repeated emphasis of Job’s blamelessness and the story’s position that Satan both proposes and causes Job’s sufferings. The emergent family model sees Job as representing a son, Satan an envious rival, and God a father or parent(s). This paper proposes that Job’s story may be reactive to a period where male authority was at risk of becoming excessive, threatening family and community health.