A Blemished Perfection: Book of Job in Context

A Blemished Perfection: The Book of Job in Context......Page 4
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 13
1. The Understanding and Interpretation of a Literary Work......Page 14
2. Circles of Cultural Exigency......Page 17
3. The Work, the Artist, and the Exegete......Page 27
1. Genre and Aesthetic Judgment......Page 32
2. Suggested Genre Classifications of the Book of Job......Page 36
3. The Book of Job and Aristotle's Poetics......Page 39
a. Aristotelian Principles Fulfilled by the Book of Job......Page 41
b. Aristotelian Principles not Followed in the Book of Job......Page 44
c. Conclusion......Page 45
1. Structural Elements in the Book of Job......Page 47
2. The Dialogues......Page 59
3. The Cyclical Model......Page 70
4. Summary......Page 76
4 Job and Catalogue Literature......Page 85
1. The Catalogue Model in Ancient Near Eastern Literature......Page 86
2. The Catalogue Model in Biblical Literature......Page 93
3. Catalogues in the Book of Job......Page 100
4. The Catalogue and the Anthology......Page 110
5 Harmonizing Mimetic Devices......Page 116
1. Dialogic Continuity among the Speeches......Page 117
2. The Moulding of the Characters......Page 132
3. The Trial Motif......Page 143
4. Summary......Page 173
6 On the Difficult Language of the Book of Job......Page 177
1. The Data......Page 178
2. Previously Suggested Solutions......Page 189
3. The Proposed Solution......Page 204
4. Irony......Page 213
7 On God's Justice in the Book of Job......Page 223
1. The Reward Equation of the Book of Job: Terminology and Distribution......Page 225
2. The Problem of Recompense in the Book of Job and in the Bible......Page 230
3. Theodicy in Mesopotamian Literature......Page 254
8 Structure and Mimesis......Page 265
1. The Frame-Story......Page 268
2. The Third Cycle of Debates......Page 277
3. The Speech of Elihu, Chapters 32-37......Page 290
4. The Speech of God, Chapters 38-41......Page 294
5. Summary and Conclusions......Page 299
9 Conclusion......Page 302
Appendix I: Catalogic Classifications in the Book of Job......Page 312
Appendix II: The Tendency towards Exacerbation in the Speeches of the Friends......Page 313
Appendix III: The Connections between the Speeches......Page 314
Appendix IV: Key Words from the Area of Justice......Page 315
Appendix V: Occurrences of Words from the Realm of Justice in the Book......Page 316
Appendix VI: Summary of Appearance of Words of Justice by Distribution Among the Speakers......Page 317
Appendix VII: Binding Elements in the Book of Job......Page 318
Appendix VIII, A: Comparison of Distribution of hapax legomena in the Books of the Bible......Page 320
Appendix VIII, B: Weighting of the Data according to an Average of All Methods of Classification......Page 321
Appendix IX: Deviation of Distribution of hapax legomena from Statistical Prediction......Page 322
Appendix X: Distribution of Foreign Words in the Bible according to Barr......Page 323
Appendix XI: Distribution of Metaphors in the Book of Job, Chapters 3-14......Page 324
Appendix XII: Distribution of Metaphors in Psalms 1-22......Page 325
Appendix XIII: The Spelling of the Verb יסף in the Hifˁil Form......Page 326
Appendix XIV: Distribution of Foreign Semitic Words in the Books of the Bible......Page 327
Appendix XV: Distribution of Word-Pairs Defined as 'Ugaritic' in the Books of the Bible......Page 328
Appendix XVI: Distribution of hapax legomena in the Book of Job......Page 329
Appendix XVII: Distribution of Motifs of Recompense in the Book of Job......Page 330
Appendix XVIII: Distribution of the Word צדיק ('Righteous') and its Parallels in Psalms, Proverbs and Job......Page 332
Appendix XIX: Distribution of the Word רשׁע ('wicked') and its Parallels in Psalms, Proverbs and Job......Page 333
Bibliography......Page 334
Index of References......Page 348
D......Page 358
K......Page 359
T......Page 360
Z......Page 361