The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations

The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations
ISBN-10
0199731152
ISBN-13
9780199731152
Series
The Book of Job
Category
Religion
Pages
320
Language
English
Published
2009-06-29
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Author
Carol A. Newsom

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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