Death and survival in the book of Job : desymbolization and traumatic experience /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mathewson, Dan, 1973-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : T & T Clark, [2006]
Series:	T & T Clark library of biblical studies. Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament studies ; 450.
Subjects:	Bible. > Job > Criticism, interpretation, etc. Death > Biblical teaching. Bible. > A.T. > Job > Critique, interprétation, etc. Mort > Enseignement biblique. Job (bijbelboek)
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

Introduction: death and divine justice
Symbolic wholeness and life, desymbolization and death (chapters 1-2)
Desymbolized death in job's early speeches (chapters 3-20, part one)
Shifting death and the legal metaphor (chapters 3-20, part two)
Generalized speech and resymbolization (chapters 21-31)
Divine speeches: symbolic fluidity and the protean self (38:1-42:6)
Conclusion: death at the end and the questions of symbolic wholeness and meaning.