The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics, Hermeneutics

ISBN-13: 9783110553949 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 236 str.

Leora Batnitzky;Ilana Pardes

Opis

This series focuses on the Jewish textual tradition as well as the ways it evolves in response to new intellectual, historical, social and political contexts. Fostering dialogue between literary, philosophical, political and religious perspectives, this series, which consists of original scholarship and proceedings of international conferences, reflects contemporary concerns of Jewish Studies in the broadest sense.

The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. Why has Job's response to disaster become a touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events? This volume engages this question and offers new perspectives on the tragic bent of the Book of Job, on its dramatic irony, on Job's position as mourner, and the unique representation of the Joban body in pain.

O autorze

Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University, USA; Ilana Pardes, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.