The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics, Hermeneutics

By: Leora Batnitzky

Book Overview

The Book of Job has held a central role in defining the project of modernity from the age of Enlightenment until today. The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics and Hermeneutics offers new perspectives on the ways in which Job's response to disaster has become an aesthetic and ethical touchstone for modern reflections on catastrophic events.

This volume begins with an exploration of questions such as the tragic and ironic bent of the Book of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110553945
• ISBN13: 9783110553949
• Release Date: June 2017
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"