CT253 Lecture Notes - Theogony, Literary Theory
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Job is super rich, and a godly man. he has all this cattle and livestock. God physically puts pain on god to see if he will curse him. Job doesn"t god, he asks him for an answer. God doesn"t give a direct answer, he switches the subject. That"s pretty much the only answer job gets. Notion of the sacred: refined, elevated, holy divine, if we see the sacred we may think that. Latin: sacer (sacker) it means blessed and cursed, holy and reviled. Sacred is closely connected with traumatic and violent kinds of things. (sacrifice etc) Violence in the sacred developed ideas that if you look closely in the sacred, a lot of it is violent kinds of stuff. There is a connection between trauma, disaster and sacred. (9/11 and new memorial) Girard talks about connections between religion, violence and how the sacred goes together. Job is about a historical moment about distinguishing good violence and bad violence.
