@article{oai:stars.repo.nii.ac.jp:00002663,
 author = {谷本, 泰三 and Tanimoto, Taizo},
 issue = {38},
 journal = {桃山学院大学キリスト教論集, St. Andrew's University Journal of Christian Studies},
 month = {Mar},
 note = {This paper seeks to identify Melville's Ahab with a super hero who wages the war of Armageddon against the White Whaie, a personified God which is, to Ahab, "an inscrutable malice." Ahab tries to remove the ultimate source of all evil that humanity suffers-inhuman activities on earth, social, economical, cultural, and what not. He has to right the wrong of the world, or the whole structure of the moral and the spiritual universe created by God. Most of all, death is to be subdued. He goes out to the whaling grounds to kill death by death.    One of the owners of the Pequod is aptly calls the hero in an oxymoron "a grand, ungodly, god-like man." The whole story of hunting the White Whale symbolicaliy depicts the tragic effort of the quasi-messiah. The self-appointed messiah claims subjective superiority over objective facts, thus committing the sin of self-deification.    To be sure, he is not without sympathy toward the weak. He often reveals the warmth of his heart. Yet humanity in Ahab is given completely to his furious indignation. The book as a whole is "a wicked book," and its tone dark and gloomy with the scene of the horrible destruction by the Flood.    The story, however,does not end there:there is Ishmael rising from the depths of the Deluge. He followed coffins before he went to sea; he now comes back to a coffin for life, floating on it "in the great shroud of the see as it rolled five thousand years ago." The reader remembers early in his tale Ishmael saying of the ocean: "Noah's flood is not yet subsided ; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers. " Noah survived the Flood, the total destructin of civilization; so does Ishmael, the total destruction of the Pequod, the nineteenth-century counterpart of the Tower of Babel.    Ishmael is back. "It so chanced," says Ishmael, the survivor. It is to tell the story of Ahab's battle. But he, in telling the story, enacts the role of a prophet, the mission ordained by the author. What is more, Ishmael's "chance" was to make Melville perform later in his work Billy Budd a role of a priest. He celebrates a Eucharist as his narrator unfolds the mysterious story of the death of an angelic young sailor, Billy Budd. When Melville was writing the story of Ahabean theodicy, he was not ready to dramatize soteriology couched in his story of Billy Budd. The old Ishmael telling the story of Moby-Dick foreshadows the tranquility and peace which prevailed at the end of the author's life-long struggle with God., 4, KJ00000154634, 論文, Article},
 pages = {1--25},
 title = {アクマ ノ ナ ニ ヨリテ エイハブ ノ ハルマゲドン},
 year = {2002},
 yomi = {タニモト, タイゾウ}
}