Book of Job A Contest of Moral Imaginations

Name: Book of Job A Contest of Moral Imaginations
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ISBN: 9780195396287

ISBN-10: 0195396286

ISBN-13: 9780195396287

Edition: 2009

Authors: Carol A. Newsom

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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.

Book details

List price: $42.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/29/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.21" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.276
Language: English

Carol A. Newsom is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. She was the 2011 President of the Society of Biblical Literature and is on the editorial advisory board for the Old Testament Library series by Westminster John Knox Press.



Abbreviations



The Book of Job a 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 28



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