Job the unfinalizable : a Bakhtinian reading of Job 1-11 / by Seong Whan Timothy Hyun.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hyun, Seong Whan Timothy.

Series:

Biblical interpretation series ; v. VOLUME 124.

Biblical interpretation series, 0928-0731 ; v. VOLUME 124

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible. Job I-XI--Commentaries.

Bible.

Bakhtin, M. M. (Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich), 1895-1975.

Bakhtin, M. M.

Genre:

Commentaries.

Physical Description:

x, 243 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2013.

Summary:

In Job the Unfinalizable, Seong Whan Timothy Hyun reads Job 1-11 through the lens of Bakhtin's dialogism and chronotope to hear each different voice as a unique and equally weighted voice. The distinctive voices in the prologue and dialogue, Hyun argues, depict Job as the unfinalizable by working together rather than quarrelling each other. As pieces of a puzzle come together to make the whole picture, all voices in Job 1-11 though each with its own unique ideology come together to complete the picture of Job. This picture of Job offers readers a different way to read the book of Job: to find better questions rather than answers. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction 1

Bakhtin's Dialogism 3

Chronotope 6

The Suitability of Bakhtin's Dialogism for the Reading of Job 13

Newsom's/Stordalen's Dialogic Readings of Job and My Dialogic Reading of Job 16

The Establishment of the Text 23

The Scope of the Text 26

Outline of the Book 27

2 Job in the Chronotope of the Prologue 29

The First Scene (Earthly Realm: 1:1-5) 30

Concluding Remark 47

The Second Scene (Heavenly Realm: 1:6-12) 47

Concluding Remarks 59

The Third Scene (Earthly Realm: 1:13-22) 60

Concluding Remark 68

The Fourth Scene (Heavenly Realm: 2a-7a) 68

Concluding Remark 75

The Fifth Scene (Earthly Realm: 2:7b-10) 75

Job's Wife's Voice 77

Concluding Remark 80

The Sixth Scene (Earthly Realm: 2:11-13) 80

Concluding Remark 82

Conclusion 82

3 Job's Speeches in His New Chronotope 84

Job's Language in the New/Estranged Chronotope of Chapter 3 84

Spatial Language in the Chapter 85

Temporal Language in the Chapter 85

Chronotope in Chapter 3 86

Job's Speeches in the Chronotope of Chapter 3 90

Job's Language in an Estranged Space in Chapters 6, 7, 9 and 10 108

Spatial Language in These Chapters 108

Temporal Language in These Chapters 108

Chronotope in Chapters 6, 7, 9 and 10 109

Job's Speeches in the Chronotope 110

Job's Language and His Body 110

Job's Language and His Relationship with God 114

Job's Language and His Relationship to His Friends 118

The Hopeless Place 125

Conclusion 126

4 The Voices of the Three Friends 128

Eliphaz' Voice 129

Eliphaz and Job's Identity 129

Narrativity in Eliphaz' Voice 141

Job's Fate 145

Bildad's Voice 147

Job's Words 147

Job's Piety 151

Job's Fate 153

Job's Knowledge 155

Zophar's Voice 158

Job's Words 158

Job's Knowledge 161

Job's Fate 163

Conclusion 164

5 The Dialogic Relationship between Voices in the Prologue and Those in the Dialogue Section 166

Job's Perfect Piety and Possessions in Job 1:1-3 182

Dust (עפר) 188

Job's Voice in the Prologue and in the Dialogue 190

Sin (חטא) 190

The Womb (נטן) 191

Give(נתן) 192

Return (שוב) 193

God's Voice and Hassatan's Voice in Job's Voice in the Dialogue 193

God's Voice 194

Heart (לב) 194

Without Reason (חנם) 195

Hassatan's Voice 195

Hedge in (שכת) 195

Blessings (ברכים) and Knees (ברכים) 196

Job's Three Friends' Voices 197

The Narrator's Voice and Eliphaz' Voice 198

Job's Integrity 198

Dust (עפר) 198

Job's Voice and Eliphaz' Voice 199

1:21 199

God's and Hassatan's Voices and Eliphaz' Voice 201

Voices in the Prologue and Bildad's Voice 201

Voices in the Prologue and Zophar's Voice 203

Conclusion 205

6 Conclusion: Unfinalizing Job 207

Conclusion 219.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004258105

9004258108

OCLC:

858159265