The book of Job a contest of moral imaginations /
| Main Author: | Newsom, Carol A. 1950- |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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| Physical Description: |
xi, 301 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- The Book of Job as a polyphonic text
- The impregnable word : genre and moral imagination in the prose tale
- Critical curiosity : genre and moral imagination in the wisdom dialogue
- "Consolations of God" : the moral imagination of the friends
- Broken in pieces by words/breaking words in pieces : Job and the limits of language
- Dialogics and allegory : the wisdom poem of Job
- A working rhetorical world : Job's self-witness in Chapters 29-31
- The dissatisfied reader : Elihu and the historicity of the moral imagination
- The voice from the whirlwind : the tragic sublime and the limits of dialogue.