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

by Cook, Stephen L.; Patton, Corrine L.; Watts, James W.

• ISBN13: 9781841272436
• ISBN10: 1841272434
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-28
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

This collection of essays focuses on the book of Job, exploring the complex interplay of methodology and hermeneutics. There are two major parts: approaches that are primarily historical, i.e. the recovery of what the text 'meant'; and those that are contextual, i.e. that take seriously the context of reading. Both approaches engage the theological issue of how this reading helps us to better appropriate what the text 'means'. Contributors include the editors, Mark S. Smith, Douglas J. Green, Victoria Hoffer, Ellen F. Davis and Claire Matthews McGinnis.An introductory essay surveys the contents and outcomes of the various contributions and proposes new directions for the question of integrating methods.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	7	(1)
Abbreviations	8	(3)
List of Contributors	11	(2)
Introduction: Jane Morse and the Fuller Sense (Theoretical Framework for a Sensus Plenior)	13	(27)
Corrine L. Patton
Stephen L. Cook
The Divine Family at Ugarit and Israelite Monotheism	40	(29)
Mark S. Smith
The Good, the Bad and the Better: Psalm 23 and Job	69	(15)
Douglas J. Green
Illusion, Allusion, and Literary Artifice in the Frame Narrative of Job	84	(16)
Victoria Hoffer
Job and Jacob: The Integrity of Faith	100	(21)
Ellen F. Davis
Playing the Devil's Advocate in Job: On Job's Wife	121	(21)
Claire Mathews McGinnis
The Beauty of the Beast: Leviathan and Behemoth in Light of Catholic Theology	142	(26)
Corrine L. Patton
The Unreliable Narrator of Job	168	(13)
James W. Watts
Relecture, Hermeneutics, and Christ's Passion in the Psalms	181	(25)
Stephen L. Cook
Bibliography	206	(16)
Index of References	222	(5)
Index of Authors	227