The book of Job: aesthetics, ethics, hermeneutics
This series focuses on the Jewish textual tradition as well as the ways it evolves in response to new intellectual, historical, social and political contexts. Fostering dialogue between literary, philosophical, political and religious perspectives, this series, which consists of original scholarship...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin Boston
De Gruyter
[2015]
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| In: | Year: 2015 |
| Reviews: | The Book of Job. Aesthetics, Ethics, Hermeneutics (2016) (Witte, Markus, 1964 -)
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| Series/Journal: | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Job
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Bible ; Job ; Criticism, interpretation, etc
B Bible. -- Job -- Criticism, interpretation, etc B Electronic books |
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| Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9783110333831 |
| Summary: | This series focuses on the Jewish textual tradition as well as the ways it evolves in response to new intellectual, historical, social and political contexts. Fostering dialogue between literary, philosophical, political and religious perspectives, this series, which consists of original scholarship and proceedings of international conferences, reflects contemporary concerns of Jewish Studies in the broadest sense. Intro -- Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Hermeneutics -- Bibliography -- Is the Book of Job a Tragedy? -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 The Figurative Aspect: "Dust and Ashes" -- 7 The Philosophic Aspect: Elihu -- 7.1 Dreams -- 7.2 Disease -- Bibliography -- Job, the Mourner -- 1 The Problem of Evil -- 2 The Theologian and the Mourner -- 3 Evil, Mourning and the Shrinking of Horizons -- Bibliography -- Whose Job Is This? Dramatic Irony and double entendre in the Book of Job -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Double-Edged Words -- 2.1 Definition of a double-edged word -- 2.2 Double-edged words in context: Proverbs and Ahikar -- 2.3 Identifying a double-edged word -- 3 Dramatic Irony -- 4 Dramatic Irony and Double-Edged Words -- 4.1 Job's alleged accountability -- 4.2 Retribution as a long-term investment -- 4.3 Failed Numinosity -- 5 Summary: Rhetorical Motivations of the Double-Edged Word -- Bibliography -- Reading Pain in the Book of Job -- Bibliography -- Melville's Wall Street Job: The Missing Cry -- 1 The Rise of Job as an Aesthetic Touchstone -- 2 Dead-Wall Reveries -- 3 "I Would Prefer Not to": The Joban Cry -- 4 The Starved Body: The Food of Melancholy -- 5 Fluid Typologies: "Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!" -- 6 Wall Street's Sublime -- 7 Petra and the Pyramids -- 8 Bartleby as Precursor -- Bibliography -- Kafka's Other Job -- 1 Saving Suffering: Margarete Susman's Judeo-Christian Theodicy -- 2 Bridging the Gap: Max Brod's Positive Jewish Theology -- 3 Revealing Nothing: Gershom Scholem's Negative Theology -- 4 Another Scholem: The Language of Lament -- 5 Kafka's Other Job -- Bibliography -- Joban Transformations of the Wandering Jew in Joseph Roth's Hiob and Der Leviathan -- 1 Job, the Biblical Sufferer -- 2 Ahasver, the Wandering Jew. |
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| ISBN: | 3110338793 |