The Bible Gender And Reception History The Case Of Jobs Wife
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780567239211
Description: "The Bible, gender, and reception history : the case of Job's wife investigates the fleeting appearance in the Bible of Job's wife and its impact on the imaginations of readers throughout history. It begins by presenting key interpretive gaps in the biblical text concerning Job and his wife, explaining the way gender studies offers guiding principles with which the author engages a reception history of their marriage. After analyzing Job and his wife within medieval Christian theology of Eden, the author identifies ways in which Job's wife visually aligns with medieval images of Satan"--