Contents

Chapters in this book

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