BI 151 Journal Book Review 5

Title of the Article: The Sense of the Text and a new vision

About the Author:

Frederick John Bolton was born before 1848.1 He married Susan Bray, daughter of William Pope Bray and Jane Davis, on 14 March 1868.1 Susan Bray was born in 1853 at Cornwall, Eng.1,2 She was the daughter of William Pope Bray and Jane Davis.1 Susan Bray immigrated in 1857 to Brisbane, Qld, Aust; Arrived on the ship Ascendant with her family.

Bibliographic Data: “SEMEIA” An Experimental For Biblical Criticism (the book of Job and Ricoeur’s Hermeneutics, 1981).

Outline of the Article

1) The Introduction of the text and a new vision
2) Understanding on Ricoeur’s theory
3) The correction of David Pellauer
4) Conclusion

The Article all about:

The Journal discussed about the sense of the text and a new vision. Which give the impression the history of clarification which the book of Job shows more the commentators than of the text itself as sense and reference.

David Pallauer gives us of the hesitant character of the text of this book. On the other hand as it stands there is universal application and meaning in the text. It is in its present appearance that shocks us and in this form that we too struggle with just this text? What is the shock which requires that successive generations of commentators feel the need to struggle with it, and so reveal themselves to future.

We can see in the book Job 38 we have the core of the chock. That distress lies specifically in the symbolic shock presented by the brief and the speech of the voice out of the brief to Job. Here all subjectivity is aroused and forced into the open. Here, what has been formed in any era and comes to the text is put to test and into crisis. Only such a subjectivity in crisis can be a learning and receptive subjectivity. The interpreter is clarified by the text itself as it confronts him with the limit inherent in his own conceptuality, reasserts the noetic significance of live metaphor itself, and stimulates theological reconstruction.

As this is very interesting part of the article, the most interesting part is Mr. Pellauer’s paper is his invitation to Ricoeur to clarify the condition for failure of text to have meaning. Possibly such clarification would make for greater precision with meaningful tests. In such development, one would want to know if there were more to be accounted for than loss of historical or psychi referents or the emptying of primary metaphors in the processes of time and cultural change. Possibly the history of transformations of the human self provides clues to such conditions. Exegesis probably begins on the assumption that every test meant something and still does. As superstitious approach to inscriptions is not of interest to Paul Ricoeur. The conditions of exegetical impossibility could point up important assumptions and concerns for critical theory.