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The rhetoric of suffering : reading the book of Job in the eighteenth century /

This work draws on the "Book of Job" in examining the contradictions in various 18th-century works, such as poetry poetical oratory, accounts of exploration and commentaries on criminal law, which try to account for the relations between human suffering and systems of secular and divine ju...

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Main Author: Lamb, Jonathan, 1945-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1995.
Subjects:
Bible. > Job > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > History > 18th century.
Bible. > Job > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > Great Britain.
Bible. > Job.
Great Britain.
Judaism.
Religion.
Philosophy & Religion.
1700-1799
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This work draws on the "Book of Job" in examining the contradictions in various 18th-century works, such as poetry poetical oratory, accounts of exploration and commentaries on criminal law, which try to account for the relations between human suffering and systems of secular and divine justice.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 329 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1280765224
9781280765223