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The book of Job : a contest of moral imaginations /

From the simple and beautiful language of the prose tale, to the verbal fireworks of the dialogue between Job and his friends, to the haunting beauty of the poem on wisdom and the sublime poetics of the divine speeches, this book provides an intense encounter with the aesthetic resources of Hebrew v...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Newsom, Carol A. (Carol Ann), 1950-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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; 8. The Dissatisfied Reader: Elihu and the Historicity of the Moral Imagination.