The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations

The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations
ISBN-10
0195348710
ISBN-13
9780195348712
Series
The Book of Job
Category
Religion
Pages
315
Language
English
Published
2003-03-06
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Author
Candler School of Theology Carol A. Newsom Professor of Old Testament Emory University

Description

Carol Newsom illuminates the relation between the aesthetic forms of Job and the claims made by its various characters. Her innovative approach makes possible a new understanding of the unity of the book that rejects its dismantling in historical criticism and the flattening of the text that characterizes many final form readings. Additionally, she rehabilitates the moral perspectives represented by certain voices of the book that modern critics have treated with disdain.

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