The Male Soul in Drag: Women-as-Job in the Testament of Job
Scholarship has interpreted the emphatic presence of female characters in the Testament of Job as an extended literary device, symbolizing the limitations of a feminized humanity. The female characters have been understood as foils to Job’s superiority; their only function, to enhance through negati...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
2010
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Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
Year: 2010, Volume: 19, Issue: 3, Pages: 225-245 |
| Further subjects: | B
moral allegory
B Testament of Job B Occupation B virtues and vices B female personification B Psychomachia B women literary characters B Feminist Analysis |
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| Summary: | Scholarship has interpreted the emphatic presence of female characters in the Testament of Job as an extended literary device, symbolizing the limitations of a feminized humanity. The female characters have been understood as foils to Job’s superiority; their only function, to enhance through negative contrast Job’s virtue and spiritual knowledge. Yet the text encourages a reading of the women as representations of several aspects of Job, as figures that mirror his struggles and victories. This article offers a close reading of the function of the female characters-as-Job. It concludes with some reflections on analogous literary traditions whose female characters function similarly, in the context of feminist biblical studies. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5286 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the pseudepigrapha
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0951820710364882 |