Re-reading Job
Subtitle: understanding the ancient world's greatest poem
By: Michael Austin
Publisher: Greg Kofford Books; Greg Kofford Books, Incorporated; Greg Kofford Books, Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Salt Lake City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9781589586673; 9781589586680
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Doctrines; Mormon Church; Bible; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Six things I used to know about Job; title: Job as history, Job as literature; title: The frame tale (1-2; 42:7-16); title: The wisdom dialogue (3-27); title: Odds before the end (28-37); title: God (sort of) answers Job (38-42:1-6); title: "The emancipator of your God" : Job's critique of religious orthodoxy; title: Anticipating Christianity: why Job's redeemer does not live, and how he does; title: Job after Auschwitz: refashioning theodicy in the 20th century; title: Job and the wisdom tradition.