Reading Job Intertextually

This volume fills an important lacuna in the study of the Hebrew Bible by providing the first comprehensive treatment of intertextuality in Job, in which essays will address intertextual resonances between Job and texts in all three divisions of the Hebrew canon, along with non-canonical texts throughout history, from the ancient Near East to modern literature. Though comprehensive, this study will not be exhaustive, but will invite further study into connections between Job and these texts, few of which have previously been explored systematically. Thus, the volume''s impact will reach beyond Job to each of the ''intertexts'' the articles address. As a multi-authored volume that gathers together scholars with expertise on this diverse array of texts, the range of discussion is wide. The contributors have been encouraged to pursue the intertextual approach that best suits their topic, thereby offering readers a valuable collection of intertextual case studies addressing a single text. No study quite like this has yet been published, so it will also provide a framework for future intertextual studies of other biblical texts.>

List of contents

Introduction - Katharine Dell and Will Kynes
1. Déjà Lu: Intertextuality, Method or Theory? - John Barton
Part I: Job in Dialogue with the Pentateuch
2. To Be Adam or Not to Be Adam: The Hidden Fundamental Anthropological Discourse Revealed in an Intertextual Reading in Job and Genesis - Manfred Oeming
3. The 'Reversal' of Heilgeschichte in Job 3 - John Burnight
4. Job and the Priests: 'He Leads Priests Away Stripped' (Job 12:19) - Samuel E. Balentine
5. Does the Torah Keep Its Promise? Job's Critical Intertextual Dialogue with Deuteronomy - Markus Witte
6. Parody as a Challenge to Tradition: The Use of Deuteronomy 32 in the Book of Job - Edward L. Greenstein
Part II: Job in Dialogue with the Prophets
7. The Relationship Between Job 1-2, 42 and 1 Samuel 1-4: An Intertextual Guidance for Reading - Raik Heckl
8. Job and Isaiah 40-55: Intertextualities in Dialogue - Will Kynes
9. 'Cursed Be The Day I Was Born!' Job and Jeremiah Revisited - Katharine Dell
10. 'Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it.' (Ezekiel 14:14): The Case of Job and Ezekiel - Paul M. Joyce
11. Job and Joel: Divergent Voices on a Common Theme - James D. Nogalski
12. Creation Themes in Job and Amos: An Intertextual Relationship? - Hilary Marlow
Part III: Job in Dialogue with the Writings
13. Telling the Secrets of Wisdom: The Use of Psalm 104 in the Book of Job - Christian Frevel
14. 'I Also Could Talk As You Do' (Job 16:4): The Function of Intratextual Quotation and Allusion in Job - Michael A. Lyons
15. Divine Discipline in Job 5:17-18, Proverbs 3:11-12, Deuteronomy 32:39, and Beyond - James L. Crenshaw
16. Bon and Ecclesiastes: Intertextuality and a Protesting Pair - Richard L. Schultz
17. The Inevitability of Reading Job Through Lamentations -James K. Aitken
Part IV: Job's Dialogue Beyond the Hebrew Bible
18. 'You Destroy A Person's Hope': The Book of Job as a Conversation about Death - Christopher B. Hays
19. Through the Dung-Heap to the Chariot: Intertextual Transformations in the Testament of Job - Anathea Portier-Young
20. 'He Makes Peace in His High Heaven': Job and Paul in Resonance - J. Gerald Janzen
21. An Intertextual Reading of Job in Relation to the Anti-Pelagian Augustine - Susannah Ticciati
22. Job in Modern and Contemporary Literature on the Background of Tradition: Sidelights of a Jewish Reading - Gabrielle Oberhänsli
23. The Book of Job and Marjorie Kemper's 'God's Goodness' - J. Clinton McCann, Jr
Bibliography
Index of References
Index of Authors

About the author

Will Kynes is a PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge and Liddon Research Fellow and Tutor of Theology at Keble College, Oxford (elect). His PhD thesis investigates intertextual connections between Job and the Psalms.

Summary

This volume fills an important lacuna in the study of the Hebrew Bible by providing the first comprehensive treatment of intertextuality in Job, in which essays will address intertextual resonances between Job and texts in all three divisions of the Hebrew canon, along with non-canonical texts throughout history, from the ancient Near East to modern literature. Though comprehensive, this study will not be exhaustive, but will invite further study into connections between Job and these texts, few of which have previously been explored systematically. Thus, the volume's impact will reach beyond Job to each of the 'intertexts' the articles address.

As a multi-authored volume that gathers together scholars with expertise on this diverse array of texts, the range of discussion is wide. The contributors have been encouraged to pursue the intertextual approach that best suits their topic, thereby offering readers a valuable collection of intertextual case studies addressing a single text. No study quite like this has yet been published, so it will also provide a framework for future intertextual studies of other biblical texts.

Product details

• Authors: Katharine Dell, Katharine (EDT)/ Kynes Dell, Katharine J Dell, Katharine J. Dell, Will Kynes
• Assisted by: Katharine Dell (Editor), Katharine J. Dell (Editor), Will Kynes (Editor), Kynes Will (Editor), Andrew Mein (Editor)
• Publisher: T. & T. Clark Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.02.2013
• EAN: 9780567485526
• ISBN: 978-0-567-48552-6
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Library Hebrew Bible/Old Testa; Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Te; The Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies; Library Hebrew Bible/Old Testa
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / Biblical Studies / History & Culture, RELIGION / Biblical Biography / Old Testament, Christianity, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, RELIGION / Biblical Commentary / Old Testament / General, Biblical Studies & Exegesis, Biblical Commentaries, Old Testaments