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The book of Job as sceptical literature / Katharine J. Dell.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft ; 197.Publisher: Berlin ; New York : De Gruyter, 1991Description: 1 online resource (x, 259 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110858730
  • 3110858738
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Book of Job as sceptical literatureDDC classification:
  • 221.6 22
LOC classification:
  • BS410 .D45 1991eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 11.41
  • 11.40
  • 12
  • 13
Online resources:
Contents:
""Table of Contents""; ""INTRODUCTION: �Scepticism� as a description of Job""; ""CHAPTER 1: Traditional and critical interpretations of the message of Job: Job the patient or Job the rebel?""; ""Introduction""; ""a) Traditional interpretations of Job""; ""b) Critical interpretations of Job""; ""CHAPTER 2: The quest for an overall classification for Job: Wisdom and genre""; ""a) Job as �wisdom� or �wisdom literature�""; ""b) Job as �wisdom literature�""; ""c) The quest for an overall genre for Job""
""CHAPTER 3: A form-critical approach to Job: �Parody� as an overall genre for Job""""a) The deliberate misuse of forms in Job""; ""b) A new overall genre for Job, the parody""; ""CHAPTER 4: The �sceptical� setting, content and structure of Job: The scepticism of Job and the author of the book""; ""a) The quest for a context for Job""; ""b) The scepticism of Job as shown in the content of the book""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Abbreviations""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""Indices""
Summary: The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Oxford University, 1988.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-246) and indexes.

Print version record.

""Table of Contents""; ""INTRODUCTION: �Scepticism� as a description of Job""; ""CHAPTER 1: Traditional and critical interpretations of the message of Job: Job the patient or Job the rebel?""; ""Introduction""; ""a) Traditional interpretations of Job""; ""b) Critical interpretations of Job""; ""CHAPTER 2: The quest for an overall classification for Job: Wisdom and genre""; ""a) Job as �wisdom� or �wisdom literature�""; ""b) Job as �wisdom literature�""; ""c) The quest for an overall genre for Job""

""CHAPTER 3: A form-critical approach to Job: �Parody� as an overall genre for Job""""a) The deliberate misuse of forms in Job""; ""b) A new overall genre for Job, the parody""; ""CHAPTER 4: The �sceptical� setting, content and structure of Job: The scepticism of Job and the author of the book""; ""a) The quest for a context for Job""; ""b) The scepticism of Job as shown in the content of the book""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""Abbreviations""; ""BIBLIOGRAPHY""; ""Indices""

The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.