Job the unfinalizable
Subtitle: a Bakhtinian reading of Job 1-11
By: by Seong Whan Timothy Hyun
Series: Biblical interpretation series -- VOLUME 124; Biblical interpretation series -- v. 124.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
ISBN-13: 9789004258105; 9789004258112
Subjects: Commentaries; Bible
Description: "In Job the unfinalizable, Seong Whan Timothy Hyun reads Job 1-11 through the lens of Bakhtin's dialogism and chronotope to hear each different voice as a unique and equally weighted voice. The distinctive voices in the prologue and dialogue, Hyun argues, depict Job as the unfinalizable by working together rather than quarrelling [with] each other. As pieces of a puzzle come together to make the whole picture, all voices in Job 1-11 though each with its own unique ideology come together to complete the picture of Job. This picture of Job offers readers a different way to read the book of Job: to find better questions rather than answers."--back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Job in the chronotope of the prologue; title: Job's speeches in his new chronotope; title: The voices of the three friends; title: The dialogic relationship between voices in the prologue and those in the dialogue section; title: Conclusion : unfinalizing job.