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Consider Leviathan

Narratives of Nature and the Self in Job

by Brian R. Doak

  • Paperback
  • 208 pages
  • Publisher: Fortress Press,U.S.
  • 15.6 x 22.8 x 2.1 cm

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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. Doak examines how the development of the human subject is portrayed in the biblical text in either radical continuity or discontinuity with plants and animals. Consider Leviathan explores the text at the intersection of anthropology, theology, and ecology, opening up new possibilities for charting the view of nature in the Hebrew Bible.

  • Author

    Brian R. Doak

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Fortress Press,U.S.

  • Published

    November 2014

  • Weight

    532g

  • Page Count

    208

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 22.8 x 2.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781451469936

  • ISBN-10

    1451469934

  • Eden Code

    4299779

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