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The Song as an answer to Job
In one ordering of the Jewish canon, the Song of Songs follows Job. After a story of devastating loss, a song of love.
The first response to trauma: turning to another.
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Carl Jung saw the New Testament as the 'answer to Job.' Scholar Tamara Cohn Eskenazi suggests the Song is the more immediate answer: not grand theology, but turning to another person in their earthly beauty and vulnerability.
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 443–444
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