The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780195396287)

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. 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. 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.

Author: Carol A. Newsom
ISBN-10: 0195396286
ISBN-13: 9780195396287
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 06/29/2009
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.80d

Review Citation(s):
Christian Century 10/18/2011 pg. 30