Semantic levels of justice in the book of Job

Abstract

The book of Job is a very unique and original case in the Bible; it is also a very representative example of the incidences of humanism and a kind of philosophical investment specific to the cultures of pre-classical Near East. In it, we are faced with an enormous attempt to resolve a feeling of aporia that dramatically affects the concept of justice and the human being, in the deep frontier of conflict that reveals itself between ethics and theodicy. The result is a feeling of loneliness and emptiness on the horizon of human action, an emptiness that sounds absurd, a concept epistemologically unbearable for them. Through an analysis in successive states of dilemma about the existential conditioning of justice, the discussion unfolds in the gender of a true forensic citation in which God is the accused, and proceeds through multiple opposing deconstructions. The way of resolution consists on the dynamisms of a transcendental aesthe- tic emotion, converging towards an ending that is one of reconstruction, in order to recieve in a somehow ingenuous manner the life conditions of the beginning.