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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465526303321

Autore

Newsom Carol A (Carol Ann), <1950->

Titolo

The book of Job [[electronic resource] ] : a contest of moral imaginations / / Carol A. Newsom

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-19-988213-4

1-282-23544-3

9786612235443

0-19-973115-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (314 p.)

Disciplina

223

Soggetti

Electronic books.

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 (p. 287-297) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; 1. The Book of Job as Polyphonic Text; 2. The Impregnable Word: Genre and Moral Imagination in the Prose Tale; 3. Critical Curiosity: Genre and Moral Imagination in the Wisdom Dialogue; 4. "Consolations of God": The Moral Imagination of the Friends; 5. Broken in Pieces by Words/Breaking Words in Pieces: Job and the Limits of Language; 6. Dialogics and Allegory: The Wisdom Poem of Job; 7. A Working Rhetorical World: Job's Self-Witness in Chapters; 8. The Dissatisfied Reader: Elihu and the Historicity of the Moral Imagination

9. The Voice from the Whirlwind: The Tragic Sublime and the Limits of DialogueConclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

From the simple and beautiful language of the prose tale, to the verbal fireworks of the dialogue between Job and his friends, to the haunting beauty of the poem on wisdom and the sublime poetics of the divine speeches, this book provides an intense encounter with the aesthetic resources of Hebrew verbal art. In this brilliant new study, Carol Newsom illuminates the relation between the aesthetic forms of the book and the claims made by its various characters. Her innovative approach makes possible a new understanding of the unity of the book of Job; she rejects the dismantling of the book by