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Is the Book of Job a Tragedy?
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Acknowledgments v
- Contents vii
- The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Hermeneutics 1
- Is the Book of Job a Tragedy? 9
- Job, the Mourner 37
- Whose Job Is This? Dramatic Irony and double entendre in the Book of Job 47
- Reading Pain in the Book of Job 77
- Melville’s Wall Street Job: The Missing Cry 99
- Kafka’s Other Job 123
- Joban Transformations of the Wandering Jew in Joseph Roth’s Hiob and Der Leviathan 147
- Hebrew Poems Rewriting Job 173
- The Bible on the Hebrew/Israeli Stage: Hanoch Levin’s The Torments of Job as a Modern Tragedy 185
- Beyond Theodicy? Joban Themes in Philip Roth’s Nemesis 213
- Notes on Contributors 225
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Acknowledgments v
- Contents vii
- The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Hermeneutics 1
- Is the Book of Job a Tragedy? 9
- Job, the Mourner 37
- Whose Job Is This? Dramatic Irony and double entendre in the Book of Job 47
- Reading Pain in the Book of Job 77
- Melville’s Wall Street Job: The Missing Cry 99
- Kafka’s Other Job 123
- Joban Transformations of the Wandering Jew in Joseph Roth’s Hiob and Der Leviathan 147
- Hebrew Poems Rewriting Job 173
- The Bible on the Hebrew/Israeli Stage: Hanoch Levin’s The Torments of Job as a Modern Tragedy 185
- Beyond Theodicy? Joban Themes in Philip Roth’s Nemesis 213
- Notes on Contributors 225