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Consider Leviathan: Narratives of Nature and the Self in Job

Consider Leviathan: Narratives of Nature and the Self in Job

Doak, Brian R.

Paperback

Bible Studies

ISBN10: 1451469934
ISBN13: 9781451469936
Publisher: Fortress Pr
Published: Nov 1 2014
Pages: 208
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.14 Depth: 8.96
Language: English

Theologians and philosophers are turning again to questions of the meaning, or non-meaning, of the natural world for human self-understanding. Brian R. Doak observes that the book of Job, more than any other book in the Bible, uses metaphors drawn from the natural world, especially of plants and animals, as raw material for thinking about human suffering. Doak argues that Job should be viewed as an anthropological ground zero for the traumatic definition of the post-exilic human self in ancient Israel. Furthermore, the battered shape of the Joban experience should provide a starting point for reconfiguring our thinking about natural theology as a category of intellectual history in the ancient world.

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