The Book of Job A Contest of Moral Imaginations
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 16 July 2009
- ISBN 9780195396287
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 231x152x20 mm
- Weight 454 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
In this brilliant new study, Carol Newsom illuminates the relation between the aesthetic forms of the book of Job and the claims made by its various characters. Her innovative approach makes possible a new understanding of the unity of the book; she rejects the dismantling of the book by historical criticism and the flattening of the text that characterizes certain final form readings.
MoreLong description:
From the simple and beautiful language of the prose tale, to the verbal fireworks of the dialogue between Job and his friends, to the haunting beauty of the poem on wisdom and the sublime poetics of the divine speeches, this book provides an intense encounter with the aesthetic resources of Hebrew verbal art. In this brilliant new study, Carol Newsom illuminates the relation between the aesthetic forms of the book and the claims made by its various characters. Her innovative approach makes possible a new understanding of the unity of the book of Job; she rejects the dismantling of the book by historical criticism and the flattening of the text that characterizes certain final form readings.
This book offers an insightful reading of Job and conceptually advances the understanding of modes of expression of Iraelite religious thought.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Abbreviations
The Book of Job as Polyphonic Text
The Impregnable Word: Genre and Moral Imagination in the Prose Tale
Critical Curiosity: Genre and Moral Imagination in the Wisdom Dialogue
"Consolations of God": The Moral Imagination of the Friends
Broken in Pieces by Words/Breaking Words in Pieces: Job and the Limits of Language
Dialogics and Allegory: The Wisdom Poem of Job
A Working Rhetorical World: Job's Self-Witness in Chapters 29-31
The Dissatisfied Reader: Elihu and the Historicity of the Moral Imagination
The Voice from the Whirlwind: The Tragic Sublime and the Limits of Dialogue
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
