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Death and survival in the book of Job : desymbolization and traumatic experience /

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 conta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mathewson, Dan, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : T & T Clark, ©2006.
Colección:Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 450.
T & T Clark library of biblical studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: death and divine justice
  • Symbolic wholeness and life, desymbolization and death (chapters 1-2)
  • Desymbolized death in job's early speeches (chapters 3-20, part one)
  • Shifting death and the legal metaphor (chapters 3-20, part two)
  • Generalized speech and resymbolization (chapters 21-31)
  • Divine speeches: symbolic fluidity and the protean self (38:1-42:6)
  • Conclusion: death at the end and the questions of symbolic wholeness and meaning.