A Terminator, a Transformer, and Job Meet: Creator-Created Relations in Film and Scripture

In this essay, I set the book of Job in dialogue with a number of films from the robot science fiction subgenre. It is my intention to show that both sets of literature are deeply engaged with questions related to how creators and created things can interact, and that they deal with these questions...

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Subtitles:Science, pseudo-science, and fiction
Main Author: Jones, Edward Allen, III (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2017]
In: Zygon
Year: 2017, Volume: 52, Issue: 1, Pages: 172-185
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Job / Science fiction film / Artificial intelligence / Robot
IxTheo Classification:AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism
CF Christianity and Science
HB Old Testament
Further subjects:B Occupation
B Creation
B Artificial Intelligence
B robot science fiction
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