The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations

by Carol A. Newsom

Book Overview

From the simple and beautiful language of the prose tale, to the verbal fireworks of the dialogue between Job and his friends, to the haunting beauty of the poem on wisdom and the sublime poetics of the divine speeches, this book provides an intense encounter with the aesthetic resources of Hebrew verbal art. In this brilliant new study, Carol Newsom illuminates the relation between the aesthetic forms of the book and the claims made by its various...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195396286
• ISBN13: 9780195396287
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"