Book of Job (eBook)
296 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4801-0 (ISBN)
LarrimoreMark:
Mark Larrimore directs the Religious Studies Program at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. He is the editor of The Problem of Evil: A Reader and the coeditor of The German Invention of Race.Mark Larrimore directs the Religious Studies Program at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. He is the editor of The Problem of Evil: A Reader and the coeditor of The German Invention of Race.
The life and times of this iconic and enduring biblical bookThe 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 "e;patience of Job,"e; 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.
Mark Larrimore directs the Religious Studies Program at Eugene Lang College The New School for Liberal Arts. He is the editor of The Problem of Evil: A Reader and the coeditor of The German Invention of Race.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.9.2013 |
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Reihe/Serie | Lives of Great Religious Books |
Zusatzinfo | 12 halftones. |
Verlagsort | Princeton |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte |
Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
Schlagworte | Allegory • Anguish • Answer to Job • Apologetics • Apostasy • Atheism • awareness • Bible • Biblical Criticism • Bildad • book of hours • Book of Job • Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes) • Cataclysm (Dragonlance) • Christian • Christian atheism • Christian burial • Christian Mission • Christian tradition • Church Fathers • courtesy • dehumanization • dinah • Disenchantment • Disputation • Divine presence • divine providence • early modern period • ecclesiastes • Elie Wiesel • Eliphaz (Job) • Emblem • Epistle of James • erudition • evocation • Frame story • G. K. Chesterton • God • Hebrew Bible • Heresy • humility • hypocrisy • Illustration • Irony • Irrationality • James Kugel • Jews • Julius Wellhausen • Lament • Literature • Liturgy • Masoretes • Midrash • Misery (novel) • Modernity • Monotheism • Morality • narrative • New Testament • Old Testament • Oral tradition • Orthodoxy • Parody • Peshitta • petrarch • piety • pity • Poetry • Problem of evil • Prose • proverb • Psalms • Rabbi • Religion • religious experience • religious text • Righteousness • Samael • Satan • scapegoating • Secularization • Septuagint • Silent protest • Sola Scriptura • Søren Kierkegaard • spiritual crisis • Stephen Mitchell (translator) • Study bible • Suggestion • Tanakh • Testament of Job • The First Man • Theodicy • Theodore of Mopsuestia • theophany • The Other Hand • tomb • uriah • Writing • Zophar |
ISBN-10 | 1-4008-4801-6 / 1400848016 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4008-4801-0 / 9781400848010 |
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