| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 202 pages) |
| Series |
Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 450 |
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T & T Clark library of biblical studies |
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Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 450.
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T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
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| Contents |
Introduction: death and divine justice -- Symbolic wholeness and life, desymbolization and death (chapters 1-2) -- Desymbolized death in job's early speeches (chapters 3-20, part one) -- Shifting death and the legal metaphor (chapters 3-20, part two) -- Generalized speech and resymbolization (chapters 21-31) -- Divine speeches: symbolic fluidity and the protean self (38:1-42:6) -- Conclusion: death at the end and the questions of symbolic wholeness and meaning |
| Summary |
The Book of Job functions as literature of survival where the main character, Job, deals with the trauma of suffering, attempts to come to terms with a collapsed moral and theological world, and eventually re-connects the broken pieces of his world into a new moral universe, which explains and contains the trauma of his recent experiences and renders his life meaningful again.€The key€is Job's death imagery. In fact, with its depiction of death in the prose tale and its frequent discussions of death in the poetic sections, Job may be the most death-oriented book in the bible. In part |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183) and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| SUBJECT |
Bible. Job -- Criticism, interpretation, etc
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Bible. Job fast |
| Subject |
Death -- Biblical teaching
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament.
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RELIGION -- Biblical Studies -- Wisdom Literature.
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Death -- Biblical teaching
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Job (bijbelboek)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780567171900 |
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0567171906 |
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1281802468 |
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9781281802460 |
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9786611802462 |
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6611802460 |
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