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Record Nr.

UNINA9910291732903321

Titolo

The book of Job : aesthetics, ethics, hermeneutics / / edited by Leora Batnitzky and Ilana Pardes ; contributors, Robert Alter [and nine others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-039398-0

3-11-033879-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (234 p.)

Collana

Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts, , 2199-6962 ; ; Volume 1

Classificazione

BC 6730

Disciplina

223/.106

Soggetti

Social sciences

LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Hermeneutics / Batnitzky, Leora / Pardes, Ilana -- Is the Book of Job a Tragedy? / Hirschfeld, Ariel -- Job, the Mourner / Halbertal, Moshe -- Whose Job Is This? Dramatic Irony and double entendre in the Book of Job / Meshel, Naphtali -- Reading Pain in the Book of Job / Raz, Yosefa -- Melville's Wall Street Job: The Missing Cry / Pardes, Ilana -- Kafka's Other Job / Liska, Vivian -- Joban Transformations of the Wandering Jew in Joseph Roth's Hiob and Der Leviathan / Hasan-Rokem, Galit -- Hebrew Poems Rewriting Job / Alter, Robert -- The Bible on the Hebrew/Israeli Stage: Hanoch Levin's The Torments of Job as a Modern Tragedy / Rokem, Freddie -- Beyond Theodicy? Joban Themes in Philip Roth's Nemesis / Batnitzky, Leora -- Notes on Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics and Hermeneutics offers new perspectives on the ways in which Job's response to disaster has become an aesthetic and ethical touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events. This volume begins with an exploration of questions such as the tragic and ironic bent of the Book of Job,  Job as mourner, and the Joban body in



pain, and ends with a consideration of Joban works by notable writers - from Melville and Kafka, through Joseph Roth, Zach, Levin, and Philip Roth.