The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics, Hermeneutics

by Leora Batnitzky (Editor), Ilana Pardes (Editor)

Overview

The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. Why has Job’s response to disaster become a touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events? This volume engages this question and offers new perspectives on the tragic bent of the Book of Job, on its dramatic irony, on Job’s position as mourner, and the unique representation of the Joban body in pain.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110393989
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	12/12/2014
Series:	Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	234
Sales rank:	537,750
File size:	1 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University, USA; Ilana Pardes, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.