Beyond The Desert Of Criticism,

Narrative Identity Takes Part In The Story's Movement, In The Dialectic Between Order And Disorder

So Long As The New Testament Served To Decipher The Old, It Was Taken As An Absolute Norm.

Living Is Already Having Been Born, In A Condition We Have Not Chosen, A Situation In Which We Find Ourselves, A Quarter Of The Universe In Which We May Feel We Have Been Thrown And Are Wandering, Lost. And Yet It Is Against This Background That We Can Begin, That Is To Say, Give A New Course To Things.

This Is Perhaps The Most Profound Meaning Of The Book Of Job, The Best Example Of Wisdom.

First, It Is Not Unimportant That The Legislative Texts Of The Old Testament Are Placed In The Mouth Of Moses And Within The Narrative Framework Of The Sojourn At Sinai.