In Turns of Tempest: A Reading of Job, with Translation

by Edwin M. Good

Book Overview

This study approaches the Book of Job as a "book, " as a work of literary art. Drawing on deconstruction s pleasure in indeterminacy, the author asks how the text of Job plays, how it discloses its patterns of words in all their multiple possibilities. "Reviews" The translation is fresh, engaging, and free-flowing. It is amazing how an unfamiliar sentence structure can open a well-known phrase to a new reading. . . . The commentary not only examines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804717850
• ISBN13: 9780804717854
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.