The Whirlwind: Essays on Job, Hermeneutics and Theology in Memory of Jane Morse (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 336)

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, recovering what the text "meant"; and those that are contextual, taking 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. Front Cover ......Page 1 The Whirlwind: Essays on Job, Hermeneutics and Theology in Memory of Jane Morse......Page 4 CONTENTS......Page 6 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 8 ABBREVIATIONS......Page 9 LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS......Page 12 A Biographical Memoir of Jane A. Morse......Page 14 Jane's Ability to Make Connections......Page 16 Building Bridges across a Modernist Chasm......Page 19 Word and History: A Positive Theological Role for Diachronic Study......Page 24 Jane's Focus on Relecture......Page 27 Reading across the Canon......Page 28 Jane's Spirit of Playfulness......Page 32 Literary 'Playfulness'......Page 34 A Late-Modern Sensus Plenior?......Page 37 The Text Weaves a Community......Page 40 The Four Tiers of the Divine Household......Page 41 The Royal Patriarchal Household as Model for the Pantheon......Page 47 The Astral Background of El's Family in Ugaritic and Israelite Literatures and Baal's Outsider Status......Page 52 The Conceptual Unity of Ugaritic and Israelite Polytheism and Biblical Monotheism......Page 62 First Journey: Traveling with the Psalmist......Page 70 Second Journey: With Job as Traveling Companion......Page 80 Victoria Hoffer: ILLUSION, ALLUSION, AND LITERARY ARTIFICE IN THE FRAME NARRATIVE OF JOB......Page 85 Ellen F. Davis: JOB AND JACOB: THE INTEGRITY OF FAITH......Page 101 The Implications of Integrity......Page 103 Integrity and Blessing......Page 107 Integrity and Exilic Hope......Page 113 God's Answer to Job......Page 116 Introduction......Page 122 On Variation in the Prologue to Job......Page 123 The Role of Job's Wife......Page 125 Ambiguity in the MT......Page 126 The Septuagint......Page 129 Job's Wife as the Satan's Advocate......Page 130 Attempts at Positive Portrayals......Page 134 On the Possibility of a Wholly Positive Reading of Job's Wife......Page 137 Conclusion......Page 140 Corrine L. Patton: THE BEAUTY OF THE BEAST: LEVIATHAN AND BEHEMOTH IN LIGHT OF CATHOLIC THEOLOGY......Page 143 The Ancient Beasts......Page 147 Job and Theological Aesthetics......Page 160 Conclusion......Page 168 James W. Watts: THE UNRELIABLE NARRATOR OF JOB......Page 169 Omniscience in Biblical Narrative......Page 170 Prose Narrator versus Divine Poet......Page 174 The Book's Attack on Omniscient Narration......Page 177 The Failure of Job's Unreliable Narrator......Page 179 Introduction......Page 182 The Anthological School......Page 183 The Sensus Plenior......Page 184 Robert's School and the Fuller Sense......Page 188 Psalm 132......Page 191 Relecture and the Psalms of Christ's Passion......Page 195 Relecture in Psalm 22......Page 196 A Messianic Sensus Plenior for Psalm 22?......Page 199 Conclusion......Page 205 BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 207 INDEX OF REFERENCES......Page 223 INDEX OF AUTHORS......Page 228 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. This collection of essays focuses on the book of Job, exploring the complex interplay of methodology and hermeneutics. The collection is divided into two parts: approaches that are primarily historical and those that are contextual Edited By Stephen L. Cook, Corrine L. Patton And James W. Watts. A Continuum Imprint--t.p. Verso. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [206]-221) And Indexes.