2022
DOI: 10.1177/03090892211040537
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Behemoth’s Penis, Yahweh’s Might: Competing Bodies in the Book of Job

Abstract: The poetic description of Behemoth in Job 40 makes use of a literary technique for describing the body known as the was.f, elsewhere found most famously in biblical literature in the descriptions of the lovers in the Song of Songs (4.1-7; 5.11-16; 6.4-7; 7.2-10). In a was.f, body parts are systematically listed and described according to an organizing principle that develops its contents a capite ad calcem, beginning with the head and proceeding down the body. However, instead of providing a standard systemati… Show more

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