Volume 1 The Many Faces of Job: The Premodern Period

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Volume 1 The Many Faces of Job

The Premodern Period

Edited by: Choon-Leong Seow

Part of the multi-volume work

The Many Faces of Job

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2023

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Volume 5/1 | Handbooks of the Bible and Its Reception (HBR)

About this book

This handbook analyses in a comparative method and on an interdisciplinary level how the biblical figure of Job and his texts were interpreted from premodern times until today, highlighting continuities and discontinuities. The first volume addresses the premodern period and includes chapters on Second Temple Judaism, Jewish Interpretations, Christian Interpretations, Islam, Literature, Visual Arts and Music.

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Choon-Leong Seow, Vanderbilt University, TN, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgement Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
List of Figures and Credits Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
1 Job in Second-Temple Hebrew and Aramaic Receptions C. L. Seow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
2 The Greek Book of Job and Other Second- Temple Greek Receptions C. L. Seow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
3 Job in Rabbinic Literature Jason Kalman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	65
4 Medieval Peshat Commentaries on Job Jason Kalman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	79
5 Medieval Jewish Philosophers on Job Jason Kalman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	93
6 Karaites, Mystics, and Anthologizers on Job Jason Kalman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	113
7 Receptions of Job in Medieval Jewish Life Jason Kalman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
8 Job in the New Testament and in the Early Church C. L. Seow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	165
9 Job in an Age of Controversy in the Church: Greek Interpreters C. L. Seow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
10 Job in an Age of Controversy: Latin Interpreters C. L. Seow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	225
11 Job in an Age of Controversy: Syriac Interpreters C. L. Seow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	269
12 The Reception of the Book of Job in the Syriac Commentary Tradition Ute Possekel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
13 Gregory’s the Great’s Moralia in Job C. L. Seow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	313
14 Gregorian Exegesis of Job in the Latin West from the Seventh to Twelth Centuries C. L. Seow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	351
15 Interpreting Job in the Later Middle Ages Joy A. Schroeder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	391
16 Receptions of Job in Early Modern Theology (1500–1700) Jonathan Warren Pagán Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	417
17 Job in Islamic Traditions and Literature Roberto Tottoli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	449
18 Job in Literature before 1700 Anthony C. Swindell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	469
19 Musical Receptions of Job from Antiquity to 1700 Nils Holger Petersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	493
20 Job in Christian Visual Art: From Late Antiquity to 1700 C. L. Seow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	509
Index of Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	543
Index of Subjects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	569
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	579
Index of Modern Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	583

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eBook published on:

May 8, 2023

eBook ISBN:

9783110569292

Hardcover published on:

May 8, 2023

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110568226

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Front matter:

16

Main content:

592

Illustrations:

2

Coloured Illustrations:

21

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110569292

eBook ISBN: 9783110569292

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110568226

Keywords for this book

Reception history; Job; Hebrew Bible; New Testament

Audience(s) for this book

Scholars of the Bible, Job, and reception history

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Volume 1 The Many Faces of Job

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