Additionally, she rehabilitates the moral perspectives represented by certain voices of the book that modern critics have treated with disdain.

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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.

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.

Author: Carol A Newsom

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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.

Loisy, A. F. Le Livre de Job. Paris: Wentworth, 2011. Lowth, Robert. ... Book 3 of
De Rarum Natura. New York: Penguin Classics, 2003. ... Newsom, Carol A. The
Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations. Oxford: Oxford University Press, ...

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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.

See Zuckerman, Job the Silent: A Study in Historical Counterpoint. 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. Robert Alter, The ...

Author: Mark Larrimore

Publisher: Princeton University Press

ISBN: 9780691147598

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The Book of Job raises stark questions about the nature and 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, one that defies interpretation even today. 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 obscure origins and his reception and use in the Midrash, burial liturgies, and folklore, and by figures such as Gregory the Great, Maimonides, John Calvin, Immanuel Kant, William Blake, Margarete Susman, and Elie Wiesel. He chronicles the many ways the Book of Job's interpreters have linked it to other biblical texts; to legends, allegory, and negative and positive theologies; as well as to their own individual and collective experiences. Larrimore revives old questions and provides illuminating new contexts for contemporary ones. Was Job a Jew or a gentile? Was his story history or fable? What is meant by the "patience of Job," and does Job exhibit it? Why does God speak yet not engage Job's questions? Offering rare insights into this iconic and enduring book, Larrimore 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.

Political Theology 11 (2010) 431–52. neusner, Jacob, trans. Baba Batra. Chicago
Studies in the History of Judaism 30. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984.
newsom, Carol A. The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations. oxford: ...

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The book of Job has captivated readers for centuries, yet its sprawling dialogues set beside its seemingly simple narrative have also puzzled those who have attempted to understand the ancient book. In this accessible companion, Approaching Job guides pastors, seminarians, and other students of Job through the characters, themes, critical issues, and key passages of one of the greatest pieces of ancient literature. Approaching Job concludes with theological and ethical implications of the biblical book of Job that should generate plenty of discussion in college courses, Bible studies, and even among laypersons attracted to a story of an innocent man who lost everything and struggled to understand why.

DIALOGUE AND ALLEGORICAL HERMENEUTICS IN JOB 28:28 Carol A.
Newsom The last words of Job 28 are quite ... are developed in my study , The
Book of Job : A Contest of Moral Imaginations ( forthcoming ) . i dialogue in chaps
. 3-27 .

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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

Examines friendship as a moral category in the Book of Job through an Aristotelian virtue ethics perspective.

Author: Patricia Vesely

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9781108476478

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Examines friendship as a moral category in the Book of Job through an Aristotelian virtue ethics perspective.

New York : Oxford UP , 2001 . Newsom , Carol A. The Book of Job : A Contest of
Moral Imaginations . New York : Oxford UP , 2003 . “ Considering Job . ” Currents
in Research : Biblical Studies 1 ( 1993 ) : 87-118 . “ Job . ” The New Interpreter's ...

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The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations. New York: Oxford University
Press. Paffenholz, Thania. 2003. Community-based Bottom-up Peacebuilding.
Uppsala, Sweden: Life and Peace Institute. Palmer, Parker J. 2000. Let Your Life
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Author: John Paul Lederach

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 0198038941

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John Paul Lederach's work in the field of conciliation and mediation is internationally recognized. As founding Director of the Conflict Transformation Program and Institute of Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, he has provided consultation and direct mediation in a range of situations from the Miskito/Sandinista conflict in Nicaragua to Somalia, Northern Ireland, the Basque Country, and the Philippines. His influential 1997 book Building Peace has become a classic in the discipline. This new book represents his thinking and learning over the past several years. He explores the evolution of his understanding of peacebuilding by reflecting on his own experiences in the field. Peacebuilding, in his view, is both a learned skill and an art. Finding this art, he says, requires a worldview shift. Conflict professionals must envision their work as a creative act - an exercise of what Lederach terms the "moral imagination."

Insights from Cultural Anthropology ( Louisville , 1993 ) . Malul , M . , Knowledge ,
Control and Sex . Studies in Biblical Thought , Culture and Worldview ( Tel Aviv ,
2002 ) . Newsom , C . , The Book of Job . A Contest of Moral Imaginations ( New ...

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This volume contains the text of the reconstructed scroll of 1QHodayota published in Discoveries in the Judaean Desert volume 40 and the English translation from that volume, lightly revised.

Author: Eileen M. Schuller

Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit

ISBN: 9781589836938

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1QHodayota is recognized as one of the most important of the Dead Sea Scrolls and key to understanding the specific worldview and piety of the Qumran community. It contains a collection of psalms giving thanks for deliverance, salvation, knowledge, and divine mercy. This volume contains the text of the reconstructed scroll of 1QHodayota published in Discoveries in the Judaean Desert volume 40 and the English translation from that volume, lightly revised. It provides the most up-to-date, accessible, and inexpensive access to the text, translation, and official numbering of the columns and lines of 1QHa.

God's challenge to Job , therefore , has to do with whether he possesses the
wisdom to use the natural resources of the ... 46 Newsom , Book of Job : A
Contest of Moral Imaginations , 246 ; idem , “ The Book of Job , ” 609-10 47 For a
detailed ...

Author: Samuel Eugene Balentine

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The book of Job is considered by many to be the crown jewel of biblical literature in its claim to speak about God. The word that defines the challenge for every reader of the book is ?struggle.? The struggle results from the fact that whatever Job's truth may be, he was neither the first nor the last to try to articulate it. In the midst of so many words in this world about God from writers within and outside the scriptural witness, this book offers a truly astonishing declaration about what it means to live in a world where order breaks down and chaos runs amok, where the innocent suffer and the wicked thrive, where cries for help go unanswered. This new commentary by biblical scholar Samuel Balentine leads readers on an in-depth and far-reaching look at the nature of the book of Jo & and the various attempts by the many who have sought to further explore Job's essential struggle.

This volume investigates practices by which the Qumran community constituted itself as a sectarian society by reconstructing the identity of its members.

Author: Carol Ann Newsom

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This volume investigates practices by which the Qumran community constituted itself as a sectarian society by reconstructing the identity of its members. Drawing on discourse and practice theory, the book analyzes the function of the Serek ha-Yahad and the Hodoyot in identity formation.

Pp. 39-49, 233-36 in The Voice from the Whirlwind: Interpreting the Book of Job.
Ed. Leo G. Perdue ... "Intertextuality: Allusion and Vertical Context Systems in
Some Job Passages. ... 2003a. The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations
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In this work, Daniel Estes introduces students to the Old Testament poetical books--Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Songs. Each chapter explores one of the five poetical books. Estes first summarizes some of the book's key issues. He then devotes the main portion of the chapter to an exposition of the book, interacting with major commentaries and recent studies. Each chapter concludes with an extensive bibliography, allowing for further exploration.Following in the tradition of Handbook on the Pentateuch (over sixty thousand copies sold), this valuable resource will help pastors, students, Sunday school teachers, and Bible study leaders better understand the overall flow of each poetical book.

Hoffman , Yair 1981. “ The Relation between the Prologue and the Speech -
Cycles in Job : A Reconsideration . ” VT 31 pp . 160-170 Hurvitz , A. ... The Book
of Job : A Contest of Moral Imaginations . New York : Oxford University Press .
2003.

Author: Leslie S. Wilson

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The Book of Job deals with a variety of issues, on levels both superficial and profound. It has been the subject of scholarly debate and analysis ever since its inclusion in the Hebrew Bible. Scholars and theologians have set forth a variety of theories to explain the "human condition" and justify the actions of the Divine toward humanity. The material differences in attempts by scholars to translate the Book of Job are evidence that these theories cannot be supported. The author of the Book of Job employs a unique intertextual code. The code hides a sophisticated agenda that includes not simply the interaction of the Divine and humanity, but also the quality of this interaction. The programmatic investigation by the author reflects also contemporary politico-religious conflicts among Jews of 2nd Century BCE Palestine. Dr. Wilson uncovers the intertextual cipher and opens the window to a single coherent solution to the meaning and intent of the Book of Job.

84 Still others seek to alter the translation of our text so that it no longer says that
Job has spoken “ truthfully . ... in her magnificent analysis of the dialogical
character of Job , The Book of Job : A Contest of Moral Imaginations ( Oxford and
New ...

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Vols. for 1907/1908-1936/1937: no. 1, Commencement issue, no. 2, Necrology report, no. 3, News, no. 4, Catalogue; v. for 1937/1938-1938/1939: no. 1, 3, News, no. 2, Bulletin of courses, no. 4, Catalogue; v. for 1939/1940-1944/1945: no. 1, 4, News, no. 2, Bulletin of courses, no. 3, Catalogue; v. for 1945/1946: no. 1, Bulletin of courses, no. 2, 4, News, no. 3, Catalogue; v. for 1946/1947-1952/1953: no. 1, 3, 4, News, no. 2, Catalogue.

Job lived for 140 years , twice the natural lifetime of 70 years ( Ps 90:10 ) and had
four generations of descendents . ... NIB ( Nashville : Abingdon , 1996 ) 4 : 317-
637 ; The Book of Job : A Contest of Moral Imaginations ( New York : Oxford ...

Author: David L. Petersen

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A one-volume commentary meant to complement The New Interpreter's Study Bible contains articles on all the books of the Bible, including the Apocrypha; general articles on biblical interpretation, geographical and historical setting, religion, canon, translation, preaching and teaching; bibliographies for each article; a chronology; an index; and more.

C. A. Newsom and S. H. Ringe , 1992 ) 130-36 ; “ Considering Job , ” CurBs 1 (
1993 ) 87-118 ; “ The Book of Job ” NIB ( 1996 ) 4 : 319-637 ; The Book of Job : A
Contest of Moral Imagination ( 2003 ) . J. Nougayrol , “ ( Juste ) souffrant ( R.S. ...

Author: John Haralson Hayes

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"Hebrew Bible is an informative and affordable extension of Abingdon's "Dictionary of Biblical Interpretation. It focuses on the history of the interpretation of individual books (for example, Genesis, Exodus, and Proverbs) and major genre categories (for example, law, prophets, history, and poetry) found in the Hebrew Bible, from the beginnings of critical study to the present. This volume is an important textbook for college and seminary classes on Old Testament exegesis or interpreting the Hebrew Bible. It is a helpful reference work for those wanting to learn more about the differing opinions and interpretations of key biblical writings and how both Jews and Christians viewed and valued the Hebrew Bible through the centuries.

Introduction In the final eleven verses of the Massoretic text of Job (42:7—17), the
divine rebuke of the friends in 42:7 for ... ethical and religious questions 1 Carol A
. Newsom, The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations (Oxford: Oxford ...

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Die in dieser Arbeit angewandte Hermeneutik ist eine Hermeneutik vom Ende her, die die Resonanz sowie die Dissonanz zwischen dem Epilog und den vorderen Teilen des Hiobbuches betont. Im Zusammenhang von Theophanie und Epilog werden Tadel und Lob, Vergeltung und ihre Aufhebung, göttliche Transzendenz und Zugänglichkeit zusammengesehen. Die sehr verschiedenartigen Traditionen des vorangehenden Abschnitts werden nicht als konkurrierende Alternativen, sondern einander ergänzende Möglichkeiten gesehen, die Natur der Beziehung zwischen Gott und Mensch zu sehen und auf die Wirklichkeit von Chaos und Leiden zu antworten.

... it is in the Book of Job that the full weight of the moral and spiritual challenge
they present can be felt most acutely. ... The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral
Imaginations (New York: Oxford, 2003), Philippe Nemo, Job and the Excess of
Evil ...

Author: Douglas E. Christie

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9780199986644

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"There are no unsacred places," the poet Wendell Berry has written. "There are only sacred places and desecrated places." What might it mean to behold the world with such depth and feeling that it is no longer possible to imagine it as something separate from ourselves, or to live without regard for its well-being? To understand the work of seeing things as an utterly involving moral and spiritual act? Such questions have long occupied the center of contemplative spiritual traditions. In The Blue Sapphire of the Mind, Douglas E. Christie proposes a distinctively contemplative approach to ecological thought and practice that can help restore our sense of the earth as a sacred place. Drawing on the insights of the early Christian monastics as well as the ecological writings of Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Annie Dillard, and many others, Christie argues that, at the most basic level, it is the quality of our attention to the natural world that must change if we are to learn how to live in a sustainable relationship with other living organisms and with one another. He notes that in this uniquely challenging historical moment, there is a deep and pervasive hunger for a less fragmented and more integrated way of apprehending and inhabiting the living world--and for a way of responding to the ecological crisis that expresses our deepest moral and spiritual values. Christie explores how the wisdom of ancient and modern contemplative traditions can inspire both an honest reckoning with the destructive patterns of thought and behavior that have contributed so much to our current crisis, and a greater sense of care and responsibility for all living beings. These traditions can help us cultivate the simple, spacious awareness of the enduring beauty and wholeness of the natural world that will be necessary if we are to live with greater purpose and meaning, and with less harm, to our planet.