Whirlwind: Essays on Job, Hermeneutics and Theology in Memory of Jane Morse

Front Cover
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The Whirlwind: Essays on Job, Hermeneutics and Theology in Memory of Jane Morse......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 8
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 9
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 12
A Biographical Memoir of Jane A. Morse......Page 14
Jane's Ability to Make Connections......Page 16
Building Bridges across a Modernist Chasm......Page 19
Word and History: A Positive Theological Role for Diachronic Study......Page 24
Jane's Focus on Relecture......Page 27
Reading across the Canon......Page 28
Jane's Spirit of Playfulness......Page 32
Literary 'Playfulness'......Page 34
A Late-Modern Sensus Plenior?......Page 37
The Text Weaves a Community......Page 40
The Four Tiers of the Divine Household......Page 41
The Royal Patriarchal Household as Model for the Pantheon......Page 47
The Astral Background of El's Family in Ugaritic and Israelite Literatures and Baal's Outsider Status......Page 52
The Conceptual Unity of Ugaritic and Israelite Polytheism and Biblical Monotheism......Page 62
First Journey: Traveling with the Psalmist......Page 70
Second Journey: With Job as Traveling Companion......Page 80
Victoria Hoffer: ILLUSION, ALLUSION, AND LITERARY ARTIFICE IN THE FRAME NARRATIVE OF JOB......Page 85
Ellen F. Davis: JOB AND JACOB: THE INTEGRITY OF FAITH......Page 101
The Implications of Integrity......Page 103
Integrity and Blessing......Page 107
Integrity and Exilic Hope......Page 113
God's Answer to Job......Page 116
Introduction......Page 122
On Variation in the Prologue to Job......Page 123
The Role of Job's Wife......Page 125
Ambiguity in the MT......Page 126
The Septuagint......Page 129
Job's Wife as the Satan's Advocate......Page 130
Attempts at Positive Portrayals......Page 134
On the Possibility of a Wholly Positive Reading of Job's Wife......Page 137
Conclusion......Page 140
Corrine L. Patton: THE BEAUTY OF THE BEAST: LEVIATHAN AND BEHEMOTH IN LIGHT OF CATHOLIC THEOLOGY......Page 143
The Ancient Beasts......Page 147
Job and Theological Aesthetics......Page 160
Conclusion......Page 168
James W. Watts: THE UNRELIABLE NARRATOR OF JOB......Page 169
Omniscience in Biblical Narrative......Page 170
Prose Narrator versus Divine Poet......Page 174
The Book's Attack on Omniscient Narration......Page 177
The Failure of Job's Unreliable Narrator......Page 179
Introduction......Page 182
The Anthological School......Page 183
The Sensus Plenior......Page 184
Robert's School and the Fuller Sense......Page 188
Psalm 132......Page 191
Relecture and the Psalms of Christ's Passion......Page 195
Relecture in Psalm 22......Page 196
A Messianic Sensus Plenior for Psalm 22?......Page 199
Conclusion......Page 205
BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 207
INDEX OF REFERENCES......Page 223
INDEX OF AUTHORS......Page 228