The vision in Job 4 and its role in the Book
Subtitle: reframing the development of the Joban dialogues
By: Ken Brown
Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament. 2. Reihe -- 75; Studies of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Research Group on early Jewish monotheism -- vol. IV; Forschungen zum Alten Testament -- 75.; Studies of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Research Group on early Jewish monotheism -- vol. 4.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9783161535338; 9783161536311
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Origin; Job (bijbelboek); Jewish Christians; Judaism; God (Judaism); Criticism, interpretation; Interfaith relations; Relations; Christianity; Early church; Bible; Receptie; History of doctrines; Doctrinal Theology; Christianity and other religions; History
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, 2014, under the title: "You terrify me with visions": the vision in Job 4 and its role in the book.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-325) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: An uncanny vision: subversive imagery in 4:12-21; title: "Have you stood in the council of God?": the vision in the first two speech cycles; title: "How small a whisper we hear of him": the vision in the development of the book; title: "If it is not he, when who?": the meaning of the vision in the original dialogue; title: "Now my eye sees you": the vision, the final form, and the early reception of Job.