The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (507 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195396286 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-02-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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readers who engage Job under her guidance will find themselves grappling indirectly with its moral and even its pastoral implications. Future work on Job will have to begin where Newsom leaves off." --Michael D. Her deft handling of the interpretive tradition, her choice of guides--e.g., Mikhail Bakhtin, Wayne Booth, Emmanuel Levinas, Paul Ricoeur, Martha Nussbaum, Alasdair MacIntyre--and her engagement with the biblical text in all its complexity are a joy to behold."--James L. This is a major and substantial contribution, lucid in both argument and style. We are led to read the different parts of Job and the different voices given expression within them in dialogue with each o
Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament at Emory University's Candler School of Theology. She has written and edited several books, and is co-editor of The Oxford Annotated Bible .
Best book on Job Daniel A. Walter Newsom's thesis is that the truth about God and suffering in the book of Job is not found in any one pronouncement of the book, any section, or any genre, rather it is explored through the dialogic process. Job is a polyphonic text, meaning a text composed of different voices, none of which has privilege. While this will be less than satisfying to some, it does offer an interesting study. Newsom does a lot of work with narrative theory, as opposed to many of the Job scholars out there. Some of her unique insights include an ingenious explanation for why the third cycle of the dialogues ends the way it does, the (il)logic of Job's speeches . Great in small doses Elyn Taylor Quite a slog through this because I don't purrrrr through intellectually-inspired theological petting. Almost finished. However, I enjoyed the unique perspective of Moral Imaginations and the juxtaposition of poem, prose, wisdom dialog to decode a divine dissertation. This perspective gave me a greater understanding of Jesus' parables.. Insightful, thought provoking. One of the most widely referred to books in the Bible and yet probably one of the least understood. We talk of Job as a cliche, but this book makes the timeless moral, philosophical and even existential issues (ooooooh doesn't that sound heavy?) of the book come alive -- even to those of us who don't really believe in an immanent God! And unlike this review, it is very readable!
In this brilliant new study, Carol Newsom illuminates the relation between the aesthetic forms of the book and the claims made by its various characters. From the simple and beautiful language of the prose tale, to the verbal fireworks of the dialogue between Job and his friends, to the haunting beauty of the poem on wisdom and the sublime poetics of the divine speeches, this book provides an intense encounter with the aesthetic resources of Hebrew verbal art. Her innovative approach makes possible a new understanding of the unity of the book of Job; she rejects the dismantling of the book by historical criticism and the flattening of the text that characterizes certain final form readings.