Contested Creations in the Book of Job: The-World-As-It-Ought- And-Ought-Not-to-Be
In Contested Creations in the Book of Job: the-world-as-it-ought- and -ought-not-to-be Abigail Pelham examines the perspectives on creation presented by Job's characters and explores the challenges to their certainties about creative agency and power raised by its epilogue.
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden
BRILL
2012
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| In: | Year: 2012 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Pelham, Abigail, Contested creations in the Book of Job] (2016) (Sandoval, Timothy J., 1966 -)
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series/Journal: | Biblical Interpretation Ser.
v.113 |
| Further subjects: | B
Electronic books
B Bible ; O.T ; Job ; Criticism, interpretation, etc B Creation ; Biblical teaching |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9789004218208 |
| Summary: | In Contested Creations in the Book of Job: the-world-as-it-ought- and -ought-not-to-be Abigail Pelham examines the perspectives on creation presented by Job's characters and explores the challenges to their certainties about creative agency and power raised by its epilogue. Intro -- Contents -- Prologue The Author, the Reader, and the Professional Not-Knower -- Writing and Un-Writing -- The Author in Biblical Studies -- The Reader in Biblical Studies -- It's Complicated -- 'Quod Scripsi, Scripsi': The Reader as Writer -- Job's Ambiguity -- The Will to Be Right and the Value of Being Wrong -- Chapter One Creation in the Book of Job: Reading Backwards and Forwards for Questions and Possibilities -- Questions and Answers about Creation -- Two Problems: Job's Response and the Epilogue -- Reading Backwards and Forwards -- Chapter Two Relationships Between Persons in the World-as-it-Ought-and-Ought-not-to-be: Centrality and Dispersion, Connectedness and Loneliness -- The Righteous and the Wicked -- Chapter 29: Relations between Persons in Job's World-as-It-Ought-to-be -- Job's Centrality in the World of the Prose Tale -- Job's Relationship to God and Hassatan in the Prologue -- How Job is the Real Winner of the Bet between God and Hassatan -- Job's 'Phantom Greatness' as Demonstrated by His Three Friends -- The Anti-World of Chapter 30: Job Displaced from the Center -- The Connectedness of the Righteous and the Loneliness of the Wicked: Interpersonal Relationships as Viewed by Job's Three Friends -- The Expectation of a גאל : Job Rejects the Friends' Assertion that He is Fundamentally Alone -- Summary of the Positions Taken by Job and the Friends -- The Wicked and the Righteous in God's Speeches -- God's Speeches as a Response to Job's Claims about the World-as-It-Ought-to-be -- The Attention of the Animals -- The Aloneness of the Animals -- God's Centrality: The Question of Power -- Leviathan and God's Power -- The Place of Human Beings in God's World -- Chapter Three Time in the World-as-it-Ought-and-Ought-not-to-be: Stasis, Change, and Death -- Nothing Ever Happens: Stasis in Job's World-as-It-Ought-to-Be. |
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| ISBN: | 9004230297 |