Death and survival in the book of Job : desymbolization and traumatic experience / Dan Mathewson
- Author
- Mathewson, Dan, 1973-
- Published
- New York : T & T Clark, [2006]
- Copyright Date
- ©2006
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (vii, 202 pages).
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- Series
- Language Note
- English.
- Contents
- Introduction: death and divine justice -- Symbolic wholeness and life, desymbolization and death (chapters 1-2) -- Desymbolized death in job's early speeches (chapters 3-20, part one) -- Shifting death and the legal metaphor (chapters 3-20, part two) -- Generalized speech and resymbolization (chapters 21-31) -- Divine speeches: symbolic fluidity and the protean self (38:1-42:6) -- Conclusion: death at the end and the questions of symbolic wholeness and meaning.
- Summary
- The Book of Job functions as literature of survival where the main character, Job, deals with the trauma of suffering, attempts to come to terms with a collapsed moral and theological world, and eventually re-connects the broken pieces of his world into a new moral universe, which explains and contains the trauma of his recent experiences and renders his life meaningful again.€The key€is Job's death imagery. In fact, with its depiction of death in the prose tale and its frequent discussions of death in the poetic sections, Job may be the most death-oriented book in the bible. In part.
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- ISBN
- 9780567171900 (electronic bk.)
0567171906 (electronic bk.)
1281802468
9781281802460
9786611802462
6611802460
0567026922
9780567026927 - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-183) and indexes.
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