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This interlude illustrates the problems of ambiguity by comparing the figures of Pentheus in The Bacchae and Job in the Bible. Both characters try to clarify categories—those of order for Pentheus and those of justice for Job. Both are resolved only after meeting with different types of furies. Both stories probe the chasm between human attempts to order the worlds of knowledge and the unknowability of the divine order. Both call the boundaries of human experience into question.
Keywords: The Bacchae; Job; Bible; Pentheus
Chapter. 6185 words.
Subjects: Religious Studies
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