Radioscopy of a Resurrection

Abstract

"Only those who have brushed with death and/or suffered the bite of pain can dream another vision. Job was one of those individuals. Right there from within his tormented flesh, Job draws this paradox of hope: "After my skin is destroyed, this I know, . . . I shall see God" (Job 19:26, NKJV). In this most common translation,' the verb nkpfpti is derived from the root nqp I (strike off)' and rendered "is destroyed," referring to the skin, thereby suggesting that the seeing of God comes upon the destruction of the body. Other translations derive the verb niqqpk from the root nqp I1 (go around, and so "mark off"), thereby suggesting, on the contrary, that the skin takes shape around the individual"