The Book of Job

Aesthetics, Ethics, Hermeneutics
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-3-11-033383-1
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Reihe: Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts

The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics and Hermeneutics offers new perspectives on the ways in which Job’s response to disaster has become an aesthetic and ethical touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events. This volume begins with an exploration of questions such as the tragic and ironic bent of the Book of Job, Job as mourner, and the Joban body in pain, and ends with a consideration of Joban works by notable writers – from Melville and Kafka, through Joseph Roth, Zach, Levin, and Philip Roth.

Zielgruppe

Academics (Religious Studies, Philosophy, Jewish Studies), Librar

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pardes, Ilana

Batnitzky, Leora

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

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