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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"The book of Job"”.
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The rib in the Book of Job
This study shows that the Book of Job can be understood as the record of a rib between Job and Yahweh, which involves ultimately the issue of the relationship of man and God. A definition of the term rib is first established by reviewing its occurrences in the other books of the Old Testament. …
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Divine-Human Dialogue and Resolution in the Book of Job
Does the book of Job resolve? If so, how? These are the questions which this study seeks to address, recognising the interpretive challenge of discerning coherence and closure in a book rife with competing perspectives and distinct literary segments. Setting Jeannine Brown’s communication model for …
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Sensing the Vexation: an Embodied Reading of the Book of Job
In this thesis, I argue that the Book of Job constructs a rhetorical situation that positions the reader into a dialogical encounter with Job’s suffering body and the reader’s own embodied experience. Challenging foundational assumptions of biblical criticism, such as the dualisms of …
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A drama of discourse: competing narratives in the Book of Job
This study engages the biblical Book of Job, subsequent medieval commentaries, and literary sources from the 15 through 20 centuries that use the language and motifs canonized in the Book of Job. This thesis is primarily concerned with the multiple stylistic elements used in the work and how they …
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Conversations about chaos and order: making the world in the Book of Job
Setting their sights on the splash thrown up by Leviathan in chapters 3 and 41, many interpreters have argued that the conflict between chaos and order, as embodied in combat mythology, is a theme in the Book of Job. Although I agree that issues related to chaos and order are central to the book, …
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Polysemy in Biblical Hebrew: Examining the Semantic Domain of Fear in the Book of Job
… has opened new avenues for Biblical studies in the last several decades. In particular, prototype theory, metaphor theory, and polysemy studies can shed light on the Biblical text. Prototype theory aids the Biblical scholar in understanding how semantic domains are organized in the mind. This …
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The Identity of the Spirit (rûªh) in Eliphaz’s Vision (Job 4:12-21) and Its Significance for Understanding the Book of Job
This monograph argues that the most plausible candidate for the spiritual visitor in Eliphaz’s vision (4:12-21) is Satan, who not only afflicts Job in the prologue (1:1-2:10), but also exerts his influence in the speeches of the friends and Elihu. Satan’s message (4:17-21) functions as a central …
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The genre of suffering in the 'ancient near eastern literature, the Hebrew bible, and in some examples of modern literature.
The aim of this thesis is to compare works of drama regarding the suffering of the human being in the context of life and literature and in relation to the issue of justice, which revolves around the impact of Justice, Humanity and God. My aim is to look at the development of the genre of suffering …
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The genre of suffering in the ancient Near Eastern literature, the Hebrew Bible, and in some examples of modern literature
The aim of this thesis is to compare works of drama regarding the suffering of the human being in the context of life and literature and in relation to the issue of justice, which revolves around the impact of Justice, Humanity and God. My aim is to look at the development of the genre of suffering …
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William Blake's artificial mythology and quotations from world mythos
The central theme of this thesis is the visual analysis of William Blake's art in connection to the available mythological and religious texts by which Blake constructed his own artificial mythology. This analysis will include explorations into Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, Jewish and Hindu myth as well …
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The Figure of the Widow in the Hebrew Bible
Widows appear in every genre of biblical text, and yet there has been little research into the way in which they are characterised. This thesis seeks to undertake a thoroughgoing exploration of the presentation of the widow in the Hebrew Bible, paying particular attention to her relationship to …
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Seeing the World through Tearful Eyes: Similes in Job’s Laments
This thesis seeks to explore a comprehensive approach to understanding the diverse similes used in Job’s laments throughout chapters 3–31. Most previous metaphor studies within the discipline of HB/OT, and of the book of Job in particular, have primarily focused on key metaphors or have treated …
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A critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments of Job: Chapters 1-21
The dissertation provides a critical edition of the hexaplaric fragments for the first twenty-one chapters of the book of Job, recording the diacritical marks and the attributions Aquila (α'), Symmachus (σ'), and Theodotion ([straight theta]') which accompany them, including hexaplaric references …
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Job for Organ: Programmatic Implications Drawn From Petr Eben's Musical Language
Job for Organ is an eight movement organ cycle by the Czechoslovakian composer Petr Eben (1929-2007). This work is based upon the story of Job in the Old Testament. Eben perceived the dramatic depth of the Book of Job and created a musical work that vividly portrays the consequences of a wager …
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Trauma at the Limit: Bearing Witness to the Impossible of Survivor Testimony
… what it means to bear witness to trauma at the limits of intelligibility. Faced by survivor testimony, clinical psychology finds itself caught in a double-bind between the lucidity of knowledge and the enigmatic horror of traumatic suffering. Despite this double-bind, bearing witness has …
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A philosophical, scientific, and theological analysis of the problem of creaturely suffering: towards a new perception of God and pain
The processes of Neo-Darwinian evolution have been used to argue against the existence of the loving God portrayed in the Judeo-Christian Bible. Philosopher William Rowe presents this as the Evidential Problem of Natural Evil which claims 1) that there is unnecessary widespread suffering in nature, …
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