The Bible, gender, and reception history : the case of Job's wife / Katherine Low.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Low, Katherine.

Series:

Scriptural traces ; 1.

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 586.

T & T Clark library of biblical studies

Scriptural traces : critical perspectives on the reception and influence of the Bible ; 1

Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 586

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Job--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Bible. Job.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 228 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury, 2013.

Summary:

"The Bible, gender, and reception history : the case of Job's wife investigates the fleeting appearance in the Bible of Job's wife and its impact on the imaginations of readers throughout history. It begins by presenting key interpretive gaps in the biblical text concerning Job and his wife, explaining the way gender studies offers guiding principles with which the author engages a reception history of their marriage. After analyzing Job and his wife within medieval Christian theology of Eden, the author identifies ways in which Job's wife visually aligns with medieval images of Satan"-- Publisher description.

Contents:

Introduction. Early Christian versions of Job's wife

Reception history and Job

Gender theory

The gendered body and Job

Outline of chapters

Eden's dunghill and the wife's deviant speech. Medieval Christian theological writings on Job

Job and his wife in medieval Christian texts

Medieval gendered deviant speech

The troublesome trio of Job, his wife, and Satan in medieval art. Medieval images

Speculum humanae salvationis

Satan's disappearance from the dungheap and Job's wife as Renaissance shrew. Medieval bodies : Job and Satan

Early modern changing views of roles at the dungheap

Job's wife's place in the woman question, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Job and his wife in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century literature

Summary

William Blake's Job. Overview of Blake's Job engravings

Job and his wife in Blake's Job series.

Notes:

Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University, 2010 under title: Domestic disputations at the dung heap : a reception history of Job and his wife in Christianity of the West.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-220) and indexes.

ISBN:

0567239217

9780567239211

OCLC:

824657836