Reading Job Intertextually (Paperback)

Introduction - Katharine Dell and Will Kynes 1. Deja Lu: Intertextuality, Method or Theory? - John Barton Part I: Job in Dialogue with the Pentateuch 2. To Be Adam or Not to Be Adam: The Hidden Fundamental Anthropological Discourse Revealed in an Intertextual Reading in Job and Genesis - Manfred Oeming 3. The 'Reversal' of Heilgeschichte in Job 3 - John Burnight 4. Job and the Priests: 'He Leads Priests Away Stripped' (Job 12:19) - Samuel E. Balentine 5. Does the Torah Keep Its Promise? Job's Critical Intertextual Dialogue with Deuteronomy - Markus Witte 6. Parody as a Challenge to Tradition: The Use of Deuteronomy 32 in the Book of Job - Edward L. Greenstein Part II: Job in Dialogue with the Prophets 7. The Relationship Between Job 1-2, 42 and 1 Samuel 1-4: An Intertextual Guidance for Reading - Raik Heckl 8. Job and Isaiah 40-55: Intertextualities in Dialogue - Will Kynes 9. 'Cursed Be The Day I Was Born!' Job and Jeremiah Revisited - Katharine Dell 10. 'Even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were in it.' (Ezekiel 14:14): The Case of Job and Ezekiel - Paul M. Joyce 11. Job and Joel: Divergent Voices on a Common Theme - James D. Nogalski 12. Creation Themes in Job and Amos: An Intertextual Relationship? - Hilary Marlow Part III: Job in Dialogue with the Writings 13. Telling the Secrets of Wisdom: The Use of Psalm 104 in the Book of Job - Christian Frevel 14. 'I Also Could Talk As You Do' (Job 16:4): The Function of Intratextual Quotation and Allusion in Job - Michael A. Lyons 15. Divine Discipline in Job 5:17-18, Proverbs 3:11-12, Deuteronomy 32:39, and Beyond - James L. Crenshaw 16. Bon and Ecclesiastes: Intertextuality and a Protesting Pair - Richard L. Schultz 17. The Inevitability of Reading Job Through Lamentations -James K. Aitken Part IV: Job's Dialogue Beyond the Hebrew Bible 18. 'You Destroy A Person's Hope': The Book of Job as a Conversation about Death - Christopher B. Hays 19. Through the Dung-Heap to the Chariot: Intertextual Transformations in the Testament of Job - Anathea Portier-Young 20. 'He Makes Peace in His High Heaven': Job and Paul in Resonance - J. Gerald Janzen 21. An Intertextual Reading of Job in Relation to the Anti-Pelagian Augustine - Susannah Ticciati 22. Job in Modern and Contemporary Literature on the Background of Tradition: Sidelights of a Jewish Reading - Gabrielle Oberhansli 23. The Book of Job and Marjorie Kemper's 'God's Goodness' - J. Clinton McCann, Jr Bibliography Index of References Index of Authors