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The book of Job : aesthetics, ethics, hermeneutics / edited by Leora Batnitzky and Ilana Pardes.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Perspectives on Jewish Texts and ContextsPublication details: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]Description: 1 online resource (226 p.)ISBN:
  • 9783110338799
  • 9783110393989
  • 3110393980
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 223/.106 23
LOC classification:
  • BS1415.52 .B66 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Contents -- The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Hermeneutics -- Is the Book of Job a Tragedy? -- Job, the Mourner -- Whose Job Is This? Dramatic Irony and double entendre in the Book of Job -- Reading Pain in the Book of Job -- Melville's Wall Street Job: The Missing Cry -- Kafka's Other Job -- Joban Transformations of the Wandering Jew in Joseph Roth's Hiob and Der Leviath -- Hebrew Poems Rewriting Job -- The Bible on the Hebrew/Israeli Stage: Hanoch Levin's The Torments of Job as a Modern Tragedy-- Beyond Theodicy? Joban Themes in Philip Roth's Nemesis -- Notes on Contributors.
Summary: The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. Why has Job's response to disaster become a touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events? This volume engages this question and offers new perspectives on the tragic bent of the Book of Job, on its dramatic irony, on Job's position as mourner, and the unique representation of the Joban body in pain.
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Acknowledgments -- Contents -- The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Hermeneutics -- Is the Book of Job a Tragedy? -- Job, the Mourner -- Whose Job Is This? Dramatic Irony and double entendre in the Book of Job -- Reading Pain in the Book of Job -- Melville's Wall Street Job: The Missing Cry -- Kafka's Other Job -- Joban Transformations of the Wandering Jew in Joseph Roth's Hiob and Der Leviath -- Hebrew Poems Rewriting Job -- The Bible on the Hebrew/Israeli Stage: Hanoch Levin's The Torments of Job as a Modern Tragedy-- Beyond Theodicy? Joban Themes in Philip Roth's Nemesis -- Notes on Contributors.

The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. Why has Job's response to disaster become a touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events? This volume engages this question and offers new perspectives on the tragic bent of the Book of Job, on its dramatic irony, on Job's position as mourner, and the unique representation of the Joban body in pain.

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