Dan Mathewson is Assistant Professor of Religion, Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. from Emory University, where he was a Fellow at the Center for Humanistic Inquiry. Dan's research interests connect biblical studies to the fine arts, death studies, popular culture and theory.

• Introduction: Job, "Our Contemporary": Reading Job in a "Post-Traumatic Age"; Chapter One: A Shattered World: Symbolic Wholeness and Life, Desymbolization and Death (chaps. 1-2); Chapter Two: Groping for Meaning: Desymbolized Death in Job's Early Speeches (chaps. 3-20, part one). Chapter Three: Groping for Meaning: Shifting Death and the Legal Metaphor (chaps. 3-20, part two); Chapter Four: Wholeness Restored: Generalized Speech and Resymbolization (chaps. 21-31); Chapter Five: The Divine Speeches: Symbolic Fluidity and the Protean Self (chaps. 38:1-42:6); Conclusion: Conclusion: Death at the End and the Problem of Suffering.

Dan Mathewson is Assistant Professor of Religion, Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. from Emory University, where he was a Fellow at the Center for Humanistic Inquiry. Dan's research interests connect biblical studies to the fine arts, death studies, popular culture and theory.

• Introduction: Job, "Our Contemporary": Reading Job in a "Post-Traumatic Age"; Chapter One: A Shattered World: Symbolic Wholeness and Life, Desymbolization and Death (chaps. 1-2); Chapter Two: Groping for Meaning: Desymbolized Death in Job's Early Speeches (chaps. 3-20, part one). Chapter Three: Groping for Meaning: Shifting Death and the Legal Metaphor (chaps. 3-20, part two); Chapter Four: Wholeness Restored: Generalized Speech and Resymbolization (chaps. 21-31); Chapter Five: The Divine Speeches: Symbolic Fluidity and the Protean Self (chaps. 38:1-42:6); Conclusion: Conclusion: Death at the End and the Problem of Suffering.

Dan Mathewson is Assistant Professor of Religion, Wofford College, Spartanburg, South Carolina. He earned his Ph.D. from Emory University, where he was a Fellow at the Center for Humanistic Inquiry. Dan's research interests connect biblical studies to the fine arts, death studies, popular culture and theory.

• Introduction: Job, "Our Contemporary": Reading Job in a "Post-Traumatic Age"; Chapter One: A Shattered World: Symbolic Wholeness and Life, Desymbolization and Death (chaps. 1-2); Chapter Two: Groping for Meaning: Desymbolized Death in Job's Early Speeches (chaps. 3-20, part one). Chapter Three: Groping for Meaning: Shifting Death and the Legal Metaphor (chaps. 3-20, part two); Chapter Four: Wholeness Restored: Generalized Speech and Resymbolization (chaps. 21-31); Chapter Five: The Divine Speeches: Symbolic Fluidity and the Protean Self (chaps. 38:1-42:6); Conclusion: Conclusion: Death at the End and the Problem of Suffering.