1st Edition
Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising
By Katherine E. Southwood
Copyright 2021
202 Pages
by
Routledge
202 Pages
by
Routledge
This book focuses on the expressions used to describe Job’s body in pain and on the reactions of his friends to explore the moral and social world reflected in the language and the values that their speeches betray.
A key contribution of this monograph is to highlight how the perspective of illness as retribution is powerfully refuted in Job’s speeches and, in particular, to show how this is... Read more
Preface
1. Introduction and methods
2. Methinks the Job he doth Protest too Much
3. The Tyranny of Tradition
4. Pride comes before a Fool: Job’s loss of Social Status
5. Conclusion: Is the answer for Job blowin’ in the Wind?
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Katherine E. Southwood is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, UK, and Tutorial Fellow in Theology and Religion and Fellow for Women at St. John's College, Oxford. She is author of Marriage by Capture in Judges 21: An Anthropological Approach (2017) and Ethnicity and the Mixed Marriage Crisis in Ezra 9-10: An Anthropological Approach (2012).
