The book of Job : aesthetics, ethics, hermeneutics /
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 trag...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2015]
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| Series: | Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts.
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| 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783110338799 3110338793 9783110393989 3110393980 |