In Turns of Tempest
A Reading of Job, with a Translation
Edwin M. Good(Author)
Stanford University Press
Published on 1. October 1990
Book
Hardback
512 pages
978-0-8047-1785-4 (ISBN)
Description
This study approaches the Book of Job as a book, as a work of literary art. Drawing on deconstruction's pleasure in indeterminacy, the author asks how the text of Job plays, how it discloses its patterns of words in all their multiple possibilities. Reviews "The translation is fresh, engaging, and free-flowing. It is amazing how an unfamiliar sentence structure can open a well-known phrase to a new reading...The commentary not only examines the dynamics of the narrative and significance of the speeches, but also contains Good's own argument with literary points made by some of the other prominent commentators on Job...The language Good uses to communicate his insights is inclusive and lively. All of this serves to make the book very readable, in fact, enjoyable." -Theological Studies "Good fills his dazzling kaleidoscope of explication with strong and intelligent historical, rhetorical, and linguistic references, citations, and allusions." -Religion & Literature "A brilliant, exhaustive study...Insights into the meaning of the Hebrew of the Book of Job are abundant, and observations about irony, sarcasm, and wordplays abound...One cannot help but be challenged and stimulated by these .
..richly endowed, carefully researched, and well-written pages." -Bibliotecha Sacra
..richly endowed, carefully researched, and well-written pages." -Bibliotecha Sacra
Reviews / Votes
"Good fills his dazzling kaleidoscope of explication with strong and intelligent historical, rhetorical, and linguistic references, citations, and allusions."-Religion & Literature "A brilliant, exhaustive study."-Bibliotheca Sacra "A unique and stimulating contribution to the field."- Critical Review of Books in Religion "The translation is fresh, engaging, and free-flowing."-Theological StudiesMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Palo Alto
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
notes, bibliography, index
Dimensions
Height: 237 mm
Width: 158 mm
Thickness: 32 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8047-1785-4 (9780804717854)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Edwin M. Good is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Stanford University.
Content
Introduction; Part I. The Book of Job: A Translation: Part II. A Reading of Job: 1. On reading; 2. Is Job religious for nothing? 3. Turmoil comes; 4. Earth, do not cover my blood; 5. Let my enemy be considered wicked; 6. A clichE, like dust and ashes; 7. I will impart my knowledge; 8. A road for the thunderclap; 9. Consoled and comforted; Notes; Bibliography; Index.