Guds syndabock Job : utifrån René Girards mimetiska teori om våld

Sammanfattning: The book of Job is famous for the problem of Theodicy and the question why an almighty and good God allows the evil in the world. The uniqueness of this ”enormous psalm” lies in the confrontation between two concepts of God. Job seems to talk about the God of victims and the God of persecutors. Jobs ”friends” are in fact his persecutors. Through mimetic rivalry Job has an united mass against him and becomes “lynched”. The author René Girards mimetic theory explains that human desires are unconscious imitations of others. The tendency to point out scapegoats is inherent in the human nature. The religion is necessary to control the violence. Through Girards theory of mimetic violence and his method of stereotypes of persceciution I will show, that Job in the Book of Job, seems to be a scapegoat of God. Even Rut, in the Book of Rut, is an invisible scapegoat. Sacrifices seems to be a necessary solution of scapegoating, Girard explains. But many scapegoats, in this case Job and Ruth, seem to be established by God, more than they deserved to be.