Job 1 - 21
Interpretation and Commentary
Published on 4. July 2013
848 pages
978-1-4674-6519-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Hebrew book of Job is by all accounts an exquisite piece of literary art that holds its rightful place among the most outstanding compositions in world literature. Yet it is also widely recognized as an immensely difficult text to understand.In elucidating that ancient text, this inaugural Illuminations commentary by C. L. Seow pays close attention to the reception history of Job, including Jewish, Muslim, Christian, and Western secular interpretations as expressed in theological, philosophical, and literary writings and in the visual and performing arts. Seow offers a primarily literary-theological interpretation of Job, a new translation, and detailed commentary.
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Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- To the Reader
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Sigla
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- 1.0 Texts and Versions
- 1.1 Hebrew
- 1.1.1 Masoretic Text
- 1.1.2 Qumran Hebrew Texts
- 1.2 Greek
- 1.2.1 OG and the Asterisked Materials
- 1.2.2 New Greek Translations
- 1.3 Vulgate
- 1.4 Aramaic
- 1.4.1 Qumran Aramaic Texts
- 1.4.2 Rabbinic Targum
- 1.5 Syriac
- 2.0 Language
- 2.1 Orthography
- 2.2 Vocabulary and Forms
- 2.3 Late Biblical Hebrew
- 3.0 Integrity
- 3.1 Prose Framework, Poetic Middle
- 3.2 The Third Cycle and Chapter 28
- 3.3 The Elihu Speeches
- 3.4 YHWH's Response
- 4.0 Provenance
- 5.0 Setting
- 6.0 Genre(s)
- 6.1 Drama
- 6.2 Epic
- 6.3 Didactic Narrative
- 6.4 Exemplary-Sufferer Texts
- 6.5 Dialogue
- 6.6 Lament
- 6.7 Lawsuit
- 6.8 Broader Categories
- 7.0 Structure
- 7.1 Prologue (1:1-2:13)
- 7.2 Dialogue (3:1-31:40)
- 7.3 Mediated Revelation (32:1-37:24)
- 7.4 Unmediated Revelation (38:1-42:6)
- 7.5 Epilogue (42:7-17)
- 8.0 Artistry
- 8.1 Prosody
- 8.2 Closures
- 8.3 Parallelism
- 8.4 Wordplays
- 8.5 Alliteration
- 8.6 Irony
- 8.7 Parody
- 8.8 Imagery
- 8.9 Personification
- 9.0 Theology
- 9.1 Job
- 9.2 The Friends
- 9.3 Elihu
- 9.4 YHWH
- 9.5 The Narrator
- 10.0 History of Consequences
- 10.1 Jewish Consequences
- 10.1.1 Second Temple Period
- A. Old Greek (OG)
- B. Aristeas the Historian
- C. Tobit
- D. Ben Sira
- E. Qumran
- F. Testament of Job
- 10.1.2 Early Rabbinic Period
- A. Tannaim and Amoraim
- B. Targum
- C. Art and Liturgy
- 10.1.3 Medieval Period
- A. The Islamic East
- B. Northern Africa and Southern Europe
- C. Northern Europe
- D. Literature
- E. Visual Arts
- F. Music
- 10.1.4 Modern Period
- A. From Spinoza to the Haskalah
- B. From the Haskalah to the Holocaust
- C. Post-Holocaust Interpretation
- D. Literature
- E. Visual Arts
- F. Music
- 10.2 Christian Consequences
- 10.2.1 Early Period
- A. NT
- B. Greek Interpreters
- C. Syriac Interpreters
- D. Latin Interpreters
- E. Liturgy
- F. Visual Arts
- G. Literature
- 10.2.2 Medieval Period
- A. Dominance of Gregory's Moralia
- B. Dominican and Franciscan Exegetes
- C. Liturgy
- D. Visual Arts
- E. Music
- F. Literature
- 10.2.3 Reformation and the Rise of Biblical Criticism
- A. Exegesis
- B. Biblical Criticism
- C. Translations and Paraphrases
- D. Literature
- E. Visual Arts
- F. Music
- 10.2.4 The Enlightenment and Romanticism
- A. Biblical Criticism
- B. Philosophers
- C. Literature
- D. Visual Arts
- E. Music
- 10.2.5 The Twentieth Century and the Present
- A. Biblical Criticism and Beyond
- B. Literature
- C. Visual Arts
- D. Music
- 10.3 Muslim Consequences
- 10.3.1 Qur?an
- 10.3.2 Stories of the Prophets
- 10.3.3 Ibn al-?Arabi
- 10.3.4 Modern Islam
- Commentary
- Prologue: The First Test (1:1-22)
- Prologue: The Second Test (2:1-13)
- Job: "Perish the Day!" (3:1-26)
- Eliphaz: All Humans Fall Short (4:1-21)
- Eliphaz: Proper Response to Suffering (5:1-27)
- Job: Unpalatable Stuff (6:1-30)
- Job: The Human Condition (7:1-21)
- Bildad: A Parable of Two Plants (8:1-22)
- Job: An Impossible Scenario (9:1-35)
- Job: Complaining with Abandon (10:1-22)
- Zophar: Divine Transcendence and Human Hope (11:1-20)
- Job: Equal but Different (12:1-25)
- Job: Effecting Right "To His Face" (13:1-28)
- Job: The Fragility and Resilience of Hope (14:1-22)
- Eliphaz: The Fate of the Wicked (15:1-35)
- Job: "O Earth, Do Not Cover My Blood!" (16:1-22)
- Job: "My Spirit Is Destroyed" (17:1-16)
- Bildad: The Place of the Wicked (18:1-21)
- Job: "I Know My Redeemer Lives" (19:1-29)
- Zophar: The Designated Lot of the Wicked (20:1-29)
- Job: Acts and Outcomes Are Unrelated (21:1-34)
