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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مؤلف مشترك: JSTOR books
مؤلفون آخرون: Batnitzky, Leora, 1956- (المحرر), Pardes, Ilana, 1966- (المحرر)
التنسيق: كتاب
اللغة:English
منشور في: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
سلاسل:Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts.
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الملخص: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.
وصف مادي:1 online resource.
بيبلوغرافيا:Includes bibliographical references.
ردمك:9783110338799
3110338793
9783110393989
3110393980