2020
DOI: 10.4324/9781003029489
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Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising

Abstract: This book focuses on the expressions used to describe Job's body in pain and on the reactions of his friends to explore the moral and social world reflected in the language and the values that their speeches betray.A key contribution of this monograph is to highlight how the perspective of illness as retribution is powerfully refuted in Job's speeches and, in particular, to show how this is achieved through comedy. Comedy in Job is a powerful weapon used to expose and ridicule the idea of retribution. Rejectin… Show more

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“…e.g., Greenstein (2003;. But recently, Katherine Southwood (2020) has opened up the possibility that the book may also be comedic, arguing that comedy "is a weapon used to expose and ridicule the idea that suffering is punishment for some wrongdoing" (2020: 2). Consequently, and without disputing the sophisticated literary artistry of the This interpretation might at first seem surprising to those bought up in a Western tradition which emphasizes God's transcendence and incorporeality.…”
Section: Divine Willy Waving In Job 40mentioning
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“…e.g., Greenstein (2003;. But recently, Katherine Southwood (2020) has opened up the possibility that the book may also be comedic, arguing that comedy "is a weapon used to expose and ridicule the idea that suffering is punishment for some wrongdoing" (2020: 2). Consequently, and without disputing the sophisticated literary artistry of the This interpretation might at first seem surprising to those bought up in a Western tradition which emphasizes God's transcendence and incorporeality.…”
Section: Divine Willy Waving In Job 40mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…e.g., Greenstein (2003; 2007; 2018). But recently, Katherine Southwood (2020) opened up the possibility that the book may also be comedic, arguing that comedy “is a weapon used to expose and ridicule the idea that suffering is punishment for some wrongdoing” (2020: 2). Consequently, and without disputing the sophisticated literary artistry of the book of Job, my argument is that the body description in Job 40 subverts the “poetics of the body” to create a comedic and crude comment on Behemoth’s hyper-masculinity – which is ultimately no match for the masculinity of God.…”
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