Additionally, she rehabilitates the moral perspectives represented by certain voices of the book that modern critics have treated with disdain.
Author: Carol A. Newsom
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199731152
Category: Religion
Page: 320
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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 that characterizes many final form readings. Additionally, she rehabilitates the moral perspectives represented by certain voices of the book that modern critics have treated with disdain.
Additionally, she rehabilitates the moral perspectives represented by certain voices of the book that modern critics have treated with disdain.
Author: Carol A. Newsom
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195150155
Category: Religion
Page: 320
View: 508
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 that characterizes many final form readings. Additionally, she rehabilitates the moral perspectives represented by certain voices of the book that modern critics have treated with disdain.
DIALOGUE AND ALLEGORICAL HERMENEUTICS IN JOB 28:28 Carol A. Newsom The last words of Job ... The Book of Job : A Contest of Moral Imaginations ( forthcoming ) ...
Author: E. J. Van Wolde
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004130047
Category: Religion
Page: 375
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This volume deals with the song of wisdom in Job 28 as it is analysed by scholars in biblical exegesis, Hebrew lexicography and cognitive linguistics and shows that exploring the common ground is worthwhile
... incentive for readers to emulate in their own lives the virtues that these characters embody.10 In The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations, ...
Author: Patricia Vesely
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108476478
Category: Bibles
Page: 299
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Examines friendship as a moral category in the Book of Job through an Aristotelian virtue ethics perspective.
The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations. New York: Oxford University Press. Paffenholz, Thania. 2003. Community-based Bottom-up Peacebuilding.
“Job and His Friends: A Conflict of Moral Imaginations.” Interpretation 53 no. 3 (1999): 239–253.______. The Book of Job:A Contest ...
Author: Abigail Pelham
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004218208
Category: Religion
Page: 262
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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.
The Book of Job functions as literature of survival where the main character, Job, deals with the trauma of suffering, attempts to come to terms with a collapsed moral and theological world, and eventually re-connects the broken pieces of ...
Author: Dan Mathewson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 9780567171900
Category: Religion
Page: 216
View: 574
The Book of Job functions as literature of survival where the main character, Job, deals with the trauma of suffering, attempts to come to terms with a collapsed moral and theological world, and eventually re-connects the broken pieces of his world into a new moral universe, which explains and contains the trauma of his recent experiences and renders his life meaningful again. The key is Job's death imagery. In fact, with its depiction of death in the prose tale and its frequent discussions of death in the poetic sections, Job may be the most death-oriented book in the bible. In particular, Job, in his speeches, articulates his experience of suffering as the experience of death. To help understand this focus on death in Job we turn to the psychohistorian, Robert Lifton, who investigates the effects on the human psyche of various traumatic experiences (wars, natural disasters, etc). According to Lifton, survivors of disaster often sense that their world has "collapsed" and they engage in a struggle to go on living. Part of this struggle involves finding meaning in death and locating death's place in the continuity of life. Like many such survivors, Job's understanding of death is a flashpoint indicating his bewilderment (or "desymbolization") in the early portions of his speeches, and then, later on, his arrival at what Lifton calls "resymbolization," the reconfiguration of a world that can account for disaster and render death - and life - meaningful again.
Author: Katherine E. SouthwoodPublish On: 2020-09-02
The book of Job: A contest of moral imaginations. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press. Newsom, C.A., 2009. The book of Job.
Author: Katherine E. Southwood
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781000163414
Category: History
Page: 190
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This book focuses on the expressions used to describe Job’s body in pain and on the reactions of his friends to explore the moral and social world reflected in the language and the values that their speeches betray. A key contribution of this monograph is to highlight how the perspective of illness as retribution is powerfully refuted in Job’s speeches and, in particular, to show how this is achieved through comedy. Comedy in Job is a powerful weapon used to expose and ridicule the idea of retribution. Rejecting the approach of retrospective diagnosis, this monograph carefully analyses the expression of pain in Job focusing specifically on somatic language used in the deity attack metaphors, in the deity surveillance metaphors and in the language connected to the body and social status. These metaphors are analysed in a comparative way using research from medical anthropology and sociology which focuses on illness narratives and expressions of pain. Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising will be of interest to anyone working on the Book of Job, as well as those with an interest in suffering and pain in the Hebrew Bible more broadly.
For a re- sponse, see briefly Raymond C. Van Leeuwen, review of Carol A. Newsom, The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations, Int 58 (2004): 185-86; ...
Author: Scott C. Jones
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783110214772
Category: Foreign Language Study
Page: 293
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This study brings together literary and philological criticism to offer a reading of Job 28 as poetry. The heart of the study consists of two major sections. The first is an interpretation of the poem against the heroic deeds of ancient kings described in Mesopotamian royal narratives, especially the Gilgamesh epic. The second is a thorough philological and textual commentary which employs an aesthetic rationale for restoring the text of the poem as a work of art. The study reveals a multileveled masterpiece whose complexity impacts how one reads Job 28 as poetry and theology.
3. Newsom, The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations. 4. Marvin Pope, The Anchor Bible: Job (Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1965), xviii. 5.
Author: Mark Larrimore
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691202464
Category: Religion
Page: 296
View: 167
The life and times of this iconic and enduring biblical book The book of Job raises stark questions about the meaning of innocent suffering and the relationship of the human to the divine, yet it is also one of the Bible's most obscure and paradoxical books. Mark Larrimore provides a panoramic history of this remarkable book, traversing centuries and traditions to examine how Job's trials and his challenge to God have been used and understood in diverse contexts, from commentary and liturgy to philosophy and art. Larrimore traces Job's reception by figures such as Gregory the Great, William Blake, and Elie Wiesel, and reveals how Job has come to be viewed as the Bible's answer to the problem of evil and the perennial question of why a God who supposedly loves justice permits bad things to happen to good people.
“Intertextuality: Allusion and Vertical Context Systems in Some Job Passages. ... The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations.
Author: Daniel J. Estes
Publisher: Baker Academic
ISBN: 9780801038884
Category: Religion
Page: 448
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Examines the content and message of Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs to help readers better understand the overall flow of each book.
Hone's book includes selections from: Calvin, Francis Bacon, Blake, ... Carol Newsom, The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imagination (2009).
Author: Stephen J. Vicchio
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 9781725257276
Category: Religion
Page: 460
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This book is the product of fifty years of scholarship. It consists of two main parts: the first is an essay on the history of interpreting the book of Job in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The second part is a commentary on the book.
... Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009). Newsom reads the book as a representative of the wisdom dialogue.
Author: Sami Pihlström
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9783319408835
Category: Philosophy
Page: 320
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This book defends antitheodicism, arguing that theodicies, seeking to excuse God for evil and suffering in the world, fail to ethically acknowledge the victims of suffering. The authors argue for this view using literary and philosophical resources, commencing with Immanuel Kant’s 1791 “Theodicy Essay” and its reading of the Book of Job. Three important twentieth century antitheodicist positions are explored, including “Jewish” post-Holocaust ethical antitheodicism, Wittgensteinian antitheodicism exemplified by D.Z. Phillips and pragmatist antitheodicism defended by William James. The authors argue that these approaches to evil and suffering are fundamentally Kantian. Literary works such as Franz Kafka’s The Trial, Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, and George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, are examined in order to crucially advance the philosophical case for antitheodicism.
Carol Newsom has presented a remarkable interpretation of the book of Job as being a “ contest of moral imaginations . ” 80 Newsom argues that the prose ...
Author: Meira Z. Kensky
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
ISBN: 3161504097
Category: Religion
Page: 379
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Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Chicago, 2009.
This accords with the recent work of Carol Newsom, who has made the valuable suggestion that the book of Job is a contest of moral imaginations.14 The ...
Author: Andrew Picard
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317011132
Category: Religion
Page: 320
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The Christian gospel compels humanity to embrace deeper ways of being human together that will overcome false divisions and exclusions in search of flourishing and graced communities. Presenting both short narratives emerging out of theological reflection on experience and analytical essays arising from engagement in scholarly conversations Theology and the Experience of Disability is a conscious attempt to develop theology by and with people with disabilities instead of theology about people with disabilities. A mixture of academic, professional, practical, and/or lived experience is brought to the topic in search of constructive multi-disciplinary proposals for church and society. The result is an interdisciplinary engagement with the constructive possibilities that emerge from a distinctly Christian understanding of disability as lived experience.
This moral imagination is given shape by means of Elihu's close reading of and ... 8 of my book, The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imagination (Newsom ...
Author: Timothy Sandoval
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 9780567004284
Category: Religion
Page: 360
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This collection contains studies reflecting the contribution of Martin Buss to biblical scholarship, focusing on the forms and genres of biblical literature and on interdisciplinary approaches to biblical interpretation. Contributors to the volume include J.H. Hayes, J. Kuan, A. Siedlecki, B. Green, M. Miller, R. Bailey, S. Melcher, B. Long, N. Walls, C. Newsom, D. Blumenthal, T. Linafelt, T. Beal, E. Ben Zvi, N. Stipe, N. Habel, F. Gorman, Y. Gitay, J. Lapsley, M. Sweeney, E. Gerstenberger, V. Robbins, D. Jobling, R. Weems, C. Mandolfo, and T. Sandoval.
Elihu's very place in the book is problematic—he is not introduced with Job's ... C. A. Newsom, The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations (Oxford: ...
Author: Stephen J. Andrews
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 9781498220477
Category: Religion
Page: 132
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Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament (JESOT) is a peer-reviewed journal devoted to the academic and evangelical study of the Old Testament. The journal seeks to fill a need in academia by providing a venue for high-level scholarship on the Old Testament from an evangelical standpoint. The journal is not affiliated with any particular academic institution, and with an international editorial board, open access format, and multi-language submissions, JESOT cultivates and promotes Old Testament scholarship in the evangelical global community. The journal differs from many evangelical journals in that it seeks to publish current academic research in the areas of ancient Near Eastern backgrounds, Dead Sea Scrolls, Rabbinics, Linguistics, Septuagint, Research Methodology, Literary Analysis, Exegesis, Text Criticism, and Theology as they pertain only to the Old Testament. JESOT also includes up-to-date book reviews on various academic studies of the Old Testament. Download Journal for the Evangelical Study of the Old Testament, 3.2 EDITORIAL STAFF Stephen J. Andrews, executive editor (Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) Russell L. Meek, editor (Ohio Theological Institute) Andrew King, book reviews editor (Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary) Ron Haydon, assistant editor (Wheaton College) EDITORIAL BOARD T. Desmond Alexander (Union Theological College, Queens University, Ireland) George Athas (Moore Theological College, Australia) Ellis R. Brotzman (Emeritus, Tyndale Theological Seminary, The Netherlands) Helene Dallaire (Denver Seminary, USA) Kyle Greenwood (Denver Seminary, USA) John F. Evans (Nairobi Evangelical Graduate School of Theology, Kenya) John F. Hobbins (University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh, USA) Kenneth A. Mathews (Beeson Divinty School, Samford University, USA) William R. Osborne (College of the Ozarks, USA) Sung Jin Park (Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA) Max Rogland (Rose Hill Presbyterian Church, USA) Daniel C. Timmer (Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary, USA) Matthew Y. Emerson (Oklahoma Baptist University, USA) Christopher J. Fresch (Bible College of South Australia, Australia) Colin Toffelmire (Ambrose University, Canada) Ryan Hanley (Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, USA) Michele E. Knight (Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, USA)
Such persons become the bearers of the community's truth, and the book's conclusion thus invites ... The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations.
Author: Samuel L. Adams
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 9781119158271
Category: Religion
Page: 528
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A comprehensive introduction to ancient wisdom literature, with fascinating essays on a broad range of topics. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Wisdom Literature is a wide-ranging introduction to the texts, themes, and receptions of the wisdom literature of the Bible and the ancient world. This comprehensive volume brings together original essays from established scholars and emerging voices to offer a variety of perspectives on the “wisdom” biblical books, early Christian and rabbinic literature, and beyond. Varied and engaging essays provide fresh insights on topics of timeless relevance, exploring the distinct features of instructional texts and discussing their interpretation in both antiquity and the modern world. Designed for non-specialists, this accessible volume provides readers with balanced coverage of traditional biblical wisdom texts, including Proverbs, Job, Psalms, and Ecclesiastes; lesser-known Egyptian and Mesopotamian wisdom; and African proverbs. The contributors explore topics ranging from scribes and pedagogy in ancient Israel, to representations of biblical wisdom literature in contemporary cinema. Offering readers a fresh and interesting way to engage with wisdom literature, this book: Discusses sapiential books and traditions in various historical and cultural contexts Offers up-to-date discussion on the study of the biblical wisdom books Features essays on the history of interpretation and theological reception Includes essays covering the antecedents and afterlife of the texts Part of the acclaimed Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion series, the Companion to Wisdom Literature is a valuable resource for university, seminary and divinity school students and instructors, scholars and researchers, and general readers with interest in the subject.
The narrator introduces readers to the main character, Job, ... 5 Carol A. Newsom, The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations (Oxford and New York: ...
Author: John R. Schneider
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781108487603
Category: Religion
Page: 291
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This book will be of interest to college faculty and advanced students interested in the relationship between religion and science, particularly at Christian colleges and seminaries. Its value is to offer an innovative Christian theological approach to the daunting problem that Darwinian animal suffering poses to belief in God.
