The Book of Job

Open Access Published by De Gruyter 2015

The Book of Job

Aesthetics, Ethics, Hermeneutics

Edited by: Leora Batnitzky and Ilana Pardes

Volume 1 in the series Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110338799

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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 theJoban 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.

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

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	v
Contents Open Access Download PDF	vii
The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Hermeneutics Leora Batnitzky and Ilana Pardes Open Access Download PDF	1
Is the Book of Job a Tragedy? Ariel Hirschfeld Open Access Download PDF	9
Job, the Mourner Moshe Halbertal Open Access Download PDF	37
Whose Job Is This? Dramatic Irony and double entendre in the Book of Job Naphtali Meshel Open Access Download PDF	47
Reading Pain in the Book of Job Yosefa Raz Open Access Download PDF	77
Melville’s Wall Street Job: The Missing Cry Ilana Pardes Open Access Download PDF	99
Kafka’s Other Job Vivian Liska Open Access Download PDF	123
Joban Transformations of the Wandering Jew in Joseph Roth’s Hiob and Der Leviathan Galit Hasan-Rokem Open Access Download PDF	147
Hebrew Poems Rewriting Job Robert Alter Open Access Download PDF	173
The Bible on the Hebrew/Israeli Stage: Hanoch Levin’s The Torments of Job as a Modern Tragedy Freddie Rokem Open Access Download PDF	185
Beyond Theodicy? Joban Themes in Philip Roth’s Nemesis Leora Batnitzky Open Access Download PDF	213
Notes on Contributors Open Access Download PDF	225

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Academics (Religious Studies, Philosophy, Jewish Studies), Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 8
- Main content: 226
Keywords: Bible; Religion; Hermeneutics; Aesthetics

eBook

Published: December 12, 2014
ISBN: 9783110338799

Hardcover

Published: December 12, 2014
ISBN: 9783110333831

Paperback

Published: June 26, 2017
ISBN: 9783110553949