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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
T & T Clark,
©2006.
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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.