Buch, Deutsch, Band 2, 176 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 230 mm x 155 mm
Interdisziplinäre Studien zum Bild Hiobs in Judentum und Christentum
Buch, Deutsch, Band 2, 176 Seiten, PB, Format (B × H): 230 mm x 155 mm
Reihe: Studien zu Kirche und Israel (SKI)
ISBN: 978-3-374-03013-2
Verlag: Evangelische Verlagsanstalt
Mit Beiträgen von Hermann Spieckermann, Tanja Pilger, Markus Witte, Francesca Yardenit Albertini, Chaim Rozwaski, Martin Büchsel und Georg Langenhorst sowie Illustrationen von Moni Jahn.
[The Figures of Job. Interdisciplinary Studies on the Image of Job in Judaism and Christianity]
In both Judaism and Christianity, Job as the poetically condensed question addressing the justice of God and the meaning of suffering to this day plays an outstanding role in the interpretation of human existence. This volume sheds light on central literary and theological questions raised by the Biblical Book of Job; it traces its reception in rabbinic Judaism and Christian Late-Antiquity; using the example of medieval sacred art it draws iconographic parallels between the Man of Sorrows Job and Jesus Christ; and finally, it stresses the symbolic power of the figure of Job in 20th-century Jewish poetry. With its graphic images of Job, which were specially created for this book, this anthology invites us to join Job in addressing and contemplating the essential questions of life.