The Many Faces of Job
The Premodern Period
1st Edition
Published on 8. May 2023
XVI, 592 pages
978-3-11-056929-2 (ISBN)
Description
This handbook analyses in a comparative method and on an interdisciplinary level how the biblical figure of Job and his texts were interpreted from premodern times until today, highlighting continuities and discontinuities. The first volume addresses the premodern period and includes chapters on Second Temple Judaism, Jewish Interpretations, Christian Interpretations, Islam, Literature, Visual Arts and Music.
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Choon-Leong Seow
, Vanderbilt University, TN, USA.
Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgement
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- List of Figures and Credits
- 1 Job in Second-Temple Hebrew and Aramaic Receptions
- 2 The Greek Book of Job and Other Second- Temple Greek Receptions
- 3 Job in Rabbinic Literature
- 4 Medieval Peshat Commentaries on Job
- 5 Medieval Jewish Philosophers on Job
- 6 Karaites, Mystics, and Anthologizers on Job
- 7 Receptions of Job in Medieval Jewish Life
- 8 Job in the New Testament and in the Early Church
- 9 Job in an Age of Controversy in the Church: Greek Interpreters
- 10 Job in an Age of Controversy: Latin Interpreters
- 11 Job in an Age of Controversy: Syriac Interpreters
- 12 The Reception of the Book of Job in the Syriac Commentary Tradition
- 13 Gregory's the Great's Moralia in Job
- 14 Gregorian Exegesis of Job in the Latin West from the Seventh to Twelth Centuries
- 15 Interpreting Job in the Later Middle Ages
- 16 Receptions of Job in Early Modern Theology (1500-1700)
- 17 Job in Islamic Traditions and Literature
- 18 Job in Literature before 1700
- 19 Musical Receptions of Job from Antiquity to 1700
- 20 Job in Christian Visual Art: From Late Antiquity to 1700
- Index of Sources
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Names
- Index of Modern Authors
