The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations (2003 Newsom), book
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The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations (2003) is a book by Carol A. Newsom.
Abstract
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Published in Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Table of contents
- 1. The Book of Job as a 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 29-31
- 8. The dissatisfied reader : Elihu and the historicity of the moral imagination
- 9. The voice from the whirlwind : the tragic sublime and the limits of dialogue
- Conclusion