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The Book of Job and the Immanent Genesis of Transcendence / Davis Hankins.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hankins, Davis, author.
- Series:
- Diaeresis.
- Diaeresis
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Job--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Transcendence (Philosophy).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Winner of the 2017 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise Recent philosophical reexaminations of sacred texts have focused almost exclusively on the Christian New Testament, and Paul in particular.
- Contents:
- Introduction. the Book of Job: a triumph for today
- Job's critique of transcendent theology
- Job 1-2 : a critique of pure fear
- Ideology : the wisdom of Job's friends
- Excursus. Wisdom ideology beyond Job 4-5
- Resistance : on fear and anxiety
- Transformation : on guilt and shame
- Excursus. The final speeches
- Ontology, aesthetics, and the divine speeches
- Ethics and the ending
- Appendix. Job 4-5 : text and translation.
- Notes:
- Revised version of the author's dissertation--Emory University, 2011.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-6806-5
- OCLC:
- 899261581
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