The Book of Job A Contest of Moral Imaginations,9780195150155

The Book of Job A Contest of Moral Imaginations

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ISBN13: 9780195150155
ISBN10: 0195150155
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2003-03-06
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

Carol Newsom illuminates the relation between the aesthetic forms of Job and the claims made by its various characters. Her innovative approach makes possible a new understanding of the unity of the book that rejects its dismantling in historical criticism and the flattening of the text thatcharacterizes many final form readings. Additionally, she rehabilitates the moral perspectives represented by certain voices of the book that modern critics have treated with disdain.

Author Biography


Carol A. Newsom is 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.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations xi
The Book of Job as Polyphonic Text
3(29)
The Impregnable Word: Genre and Moral Imagination in the Prose Tale
32(40)
Critical Curiosity: Genre and Moral Imagination in the Wisdom Dialogue
72(18)
``Consolations of God'' The Moral Imagination of the Friends
90(40)
Broken in Pieces by Words/Breaking Words in Pieces: Job and the Limits of Language
130(39)
Dialogics and Allegory: The Wisdom Poem of Job 28
169(14)
A Working Rhetorical World: Job's Self-Witness in Chapters 29--31
183(17)
The Dissatisfied Reader: Elihu and the Historicity of the Moral Imagination
200(34)
The Voice from the Whirlwind: The Tragic Sublime and the Limits of Dialogue
234(25)
Conclusion 259(6)
Notes 265(22)
Bibliography 287(12)
Index 299

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