Consider Leviathan: Narratives of Nature and the Self in Job

by Brian R. Doak

Theologians and philosophers are turning again to questions of the meaning, or non-meaning, of the natural world for human self-understanding. Brian R. Doak observes that the book of Job, more than any other book in the Bible, uses metaphors drawn from the natural world, especially of plants and animals, as raw material for thinking about human suffering. Doak argues that Job should be viewed as an anthropological ground zero for the traumatic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1451469934
• ISBN13: 9781451469936
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"