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Zusatztext Carol Newsom's new book raises the level of discourse on the discourse of the Book of Job to a higher plane. Rarely has such literary sophistication been applied to a Biblical text with such clarity and moment. We are led to read the different parts of Job and the different voices given expression within them in dialogue with each other, without privileging one over the other. Drawing (ever critically) on the work of Bakhtin and several other theorists and critics, Newsom makes a powerful argument for an active reading of Job that is intensely engaged both textually and morally. No serious reader of Job will pass over Newsom's book, and no reader of the book will ever be the same. Readers may well find it, as I did, a milestone in their education. A tour de force and a major contribution to Biblical interpretation. Informationen zum Autor Carol Newsom is the Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. She has written and edited several books, and is co-editor of The Oxford Annotated Bible. Klappentext In this brilliant new study, Carol Newsom illuminates the relation between the aesthetic forms of the book of Job and the claims made by its various characters. Her innovative approach makes possible a new understanding of the unity of the book; she rejects the dismantling of the book by historical criticism and the flattening of the text that characterizes certain final form readings. Zusammenfassung In this brilliant new study, Carol Newsom illuminates the relation between the aesthetic forms of the book of Job and the claims made by its various characters. Her innovative approach makes possible a new understanding of the unity of the book; she rejects the dismantling of the book by historical criticism and the flattening of the text that characterizes certain final form readings. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Abbreviations 1.: The Book of Job as Polyphonic Text 2.: The Impregnable Word: Genre and Moral Imagination in the Prose Tale 3.: Critical Curiosity: Genre and Moral Imagination in the Wisdom Dialogue 4.: "Consolations of God": The Moral Imagination of the Friends 5.: Broken in Pieces by Words/Breaking Words in Pieces: Job and the Limits of Language 6.: Dialogics and Allegory: The Wisdom Poem of Job 7.: A Working Rhetorical World: Job's Self-Witness in Chapters 29-31 8.: The Dissatisfied Reader: Elihu and the Historicity of the Moral Imagination 9.: The Voice from the Whirlwind: The Tragic Sublime and the Limits of Dialogue Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index ...
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In this brilliant new study, Carol Newsom illuminates the relation between the aesthetic forms of the book of Job and the claims made by its various characters. Her innovative approach makes possible a new understanding of the unity of the book; she rejects the dismantling of the book by historical criticism and the flattening of the text that characterizes certain final form readings.
