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We find ourselves put to the test
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ISBN: 0773554378 9780773554375 9780773554382 0773554386 9780773553156 0773553150 Year: 2018 Publisher: Montreal Kingston London Chicago

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Does the world we inhabit offer us hospitality or indifference? This question is central to the spiritual literature of all cultures. In We Find Ourselves Put to the Test James Crooks returns to the Bible’s book of Job to explore the enduring relevance of that question and its philosophical dimensions. Beginning with the puzzle of Job’s famous stoicism and nihilism in the face of loss, Crooks explores the contradictions of suffering as dramatized in the dialogue between Job and his friends. How is it that the friends’ attempt to comfort Job with a rational explanation of his misfortune devolves seamlessly into victim blaming? How is it that Job’s own renunciation of life at the nadir of his pain converts into an intellectual patience that outlasts the advocates of rational explanation? We Find Ourselves Put to the Test gives a portrait of the suffering protagonist looking into the heart of a creation that is, by necessity, both indifferent and hospitable. A philosophical exploration of one of the most enigmatic books in the Bible, We Find Ourselves Put to the Test goes beyond critical interpretation and suggests a way of reading the book of Job that is animated by a consideration of the reader’s narratives and communities, and the limits of his or her own understanding.


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Reading Job intertextually
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ISBN: 1472550765 1283891271 0567552640 9780567552648 9780567485526 0567485528 9781472550767 9781283891271 Year: 2013 Publisher: New York Bloomsbury

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"This volume fills an important lacuna in the study of the Hebrew Bible by providing the first comprehensive treatment of intertextuality in Job, in which essays will address intertextual resonances between Job and texts in all three divisions of the Hebrew canon, along with non-canonical texts throughout history, from the ancient Near East to modern literature. Though comprehensive, this study will not be exhaustive, but will invite further study into connections between Job and these texts, few of which have previously been explored systematically. Thus, the volume's impact will reach beyond Job to each of the 'intertexts' the articles address. As a multi-authored volume that gathers together scholars with expertise on this diverse array of texts, the range of discussion is wide. The contributors have been encouraged to pursue the intertextual approach that best suits their topic, thereby offering readers a valuable collection of intertextual case studies addressing a single text. No study quite like this has yet been published, so it will also provide a framework for future intertextual studies of other biblical texts."--Bloomsbury Publishing This volume fills an important lacuna in the study of the Hebrew Bible by providing the first comprehensive treatment of intertextuality in Job, in which essays will address intertextual resonances between Job and texts in all three divisions of the Hebrew canon, along with non-canonical texts throughout history, from the ancient Near East to modern literature. Though comprehensive, this study will not be exhaustive, but will invite further study into connections between Job and these texts, few of which have previously been explored systematically. Thus, the volume's impact will reach beyond Job to each of the 'intertexts' the articles address. As a multi-authored volume that gathers together scholars with expertise on this diverse array of texts, the range of discussion is wide. The contributors have been encouraged to pursue the intertextual approach that best suits their topic, thereby offering readers a valuable collection of intertextual case studies addressing a single text. No study quite like this has yet been published, so it will also provide a framework for future intertextual studies of other biblical texts

Death and survival in the book of Job
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ISBN: 1281802468 9786611802462 0567171906 9780567171900 0567026922 9780567026927 9781281802460 6611802460 Year: 2006 Publisher: New York T & T Clark

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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 particular, Jo


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Reading Job : a literary and theological commentary.
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ISBN: 1573129623 9781573129626 9781573125741 1573125741 Year: 2011 Publisher: Macon Smyth and Helwys

The Hermeneutics of the 'Happy' Ending in Job 42:7-17
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ISBN: 3110184125 9783110184129 3110927330 9783110927337 Year: 2012 Volume: 354 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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Monograph on the hermeneutical function of the Epilogue. Includes exegesis, selected survey of Jewish and Christian Interpretations, proposed hermeneutic (within the theophany-epilogue continuum) and interpretation, and theological reflections.


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Nomadic text
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ISBN: 9780253012524 025301252X 9780253012623 0253012627 1306582458 9781306582452 Year: 2014 Publisher: Bloomington

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Brennan W. Breed claims that biblical interpretation should focus on the shifting capacities of the text, viewing it as a dynamic process rather than a static product. Rather than seeking to determine the original text and its meaning, Breed proposes that scholars approach the production, transmission, and interpretation of the biblical text as interwoven elements of its overarching reception history. Grounded in the insights of contemporary literary theory, this approach alters the framing questions of interpretation from "What does this text mean?" to "What can this text do?"


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The book of Job : aesthetics, ethics, hermeneutics
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ISBN: 3110393980 3110338793 311033383X 3110553945 Year: 2015 Publisher: De Gruyter

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The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics and Hermeneutics offers new perspectives on the ways in which Job's response to disaster has become an aesthetic and ethical touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events. This volume begins with an exploration of questions such as the tragic and ironic bent of the Book of Job, Job as mourner, and the Joban body in pain, and ends with a consideration of Joban works by notable writers - from Melville and Kafka, through Joseph Roth, Zach, Levin, and Philip Roth.


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Job's body and the dramatised comedy of moralising
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ISBN: 1003029485 1000163415 9781003029489 9781000163377 1000163377 9781000163414 9781000163452 1000163458 9780367462574 0367462575 0367533111 Year: 2020 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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"This book focuses on the expressions used to describe Job’s body in pain and on the reactions of his friends to explore the moral and social world reflected in the language and the values that their speeches betray.A key contribution of this monograph is to highlight how the perspective of illness as retribution is powerfully refuted in Job’s speeches and, in particular, to show how this is achieved through comedy. Comedy in Job is a powerful weapon used to expose and ridicule the idea of retribution. Rejecting the approach of retrospective diagnosis, this monograph carefully analyses the expression of pain in Job focusing specifically on somatic language used in the deity attack metaphors, in the deity surveillance metaphors and in the language connected to the body and social status. These metaphors are analysed in a comparative way using research from medical anthropology and sociology which focuses on illness narratives and expressions of pain.Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising will be of interest to anyone working on the Book of Job, as well as those with an interest in suffering and pain in the Hebrew Bible more broadly."


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Die Freundesreden des ursprünglichen Hiobdialogs
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ISBN: 9783110224351 9783110224368 3110224364 1282715089 9786612715082 3110224356 Year: 2010 Volume: 410 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter

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Damit, dass Elifas, Bildad und Zofar ganz im Sinne der Tradition von Hiob das Nachdenken über das Verhältnis zwischen Gott und Mensch verlangen, aber am Ende doch von Gott verurteilt werden, wirft das Buch Hiob eine der großen und komplizierten Fragen der alttestamentlichen Exegese auf. Denn wie ist die Rolle der Freunde zu beurteilen, wenn ihre Reden im alttestamentlichen Vergleich bestehen? Was hat den ursprünglichen Hiobdichter dazu bewogen, überhaupt jemanden neben Hiob und Gott in sein Meisterwerk aufzunehmen? Wenn es drei Weisen sind, wie sind ihre Reden und ihre Rollen zu bewerten? Aus diesen Fragen ergibt sich die Aufgabe der Studie über die Freundesreden des ursprünglichen Hiobdialogs. Sie werden auf ihre ursprüngliche Gestalt und Form, auf ihren Charakter und Sinn untersucht, auf ihren traditionsgeschichtlichen Hintergrund und schließlich auf ihre Rolle im Gesamtzusammenhang der Hiobdichtung. Dabei wird der Analyse der poetischen und rhetorischen Form mehr Raum gewidmet als bisher in der Forschung geschehen. Inhalt und Sprache der Freundesreden werden ausführlich in ihrem alttestamentlichen Kontext behandelt. Gleichfalls wird die Frage ihrer Reminiszenzen an andere altorientalische Traditionen erörtert.

Evil and suffering in Jewish philosophy
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ISBN: 0521417244 0521427223 0511003870 0511585683 0511880715 9780511003875 9780521427227 9780521417242 9780511880711 9780511585685 Year: 1995 Volume: 6 Publisher: Cambridge, U.K. New York

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The problems of evil and suffering have been extensively discussed in Jewish philosophy, and much of the discussion has centred on the Book of Job. In this study Oliver Leaman poses two questions: how can a powerful and caring deity allow terrible things to happen to obviously innocent people, and why have the Jewish people been so harshly treated throughout history, given their status as the chosen people? He explores these issues through an analysis of the views of Philo, Saadya, Maimonides, Gersonides, Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, and post-Holocaust thinkers, and suggests that a discussion of evil and suffering is really a discussion about our relationship with God.

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