Contested Creations in the Book of Job The-World-As-It-Ought- And-Ought-Not-To-Be

In Contested Creations in the Book of Job: the-world-as-it-ought- and -ought-not-to-be Abigail Pelham examines the perspectives on creation presented by Job's characters and explores the challenges to their certainties about creative agency and power raised by its epilogue.

About the author

Abigail Pelham, Ph.D. (2009), University of Glasgow, is an adjunct instructor at Luther Seminary. Her articles on Job include Job as Comedy, Revisited (JSOT, 2010) and Job's Crisis of Language: Power and Powerlessness in Job's Oaths (JSOT, 2012).

Product details

• Authors: Abigail Pelham
• Publisher: Brill
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 25.05.2012
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious
• EAN: 9789004218208
• ISBN: 978-90-04-21820-8
• Pages: 262
• Dimensions (packing): 15.9 x 24.1 x 2.2 cm
• Weight (packing): 508 g
• Series: Biblical Interpretation > 113
• Subjects: Kritik und Exegese heiliger Texte; RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament; RELIGION / Biblical Studies / Old Testament; Religion - Commentaries / Reference