Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job's Wife

AvKatherine Low,Andrew Mein

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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The Bible, Gender, and Reception History: The Case of Job's Wife investigates the fleeting appearance in the Bible of Job's wife and its impact on the imaginations of readers throughout history. It begins by presenting key interpretive gaps in the biblical text concerning Job and his wife, explaining the way gender studies offers guiding principles with which the author engages a reception history of their marriage. After analyzing Job and his wife within medieval Christian theology of Eden, the author identifies ways in which Job's wife visually aligns with medieval images of Satan. The volume explores portrayals of Job and his wife in publications on marriage and gender roles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, moving onto an investigation of William Blake's sharp artistic divergence from the common tradition in his representation of Job's wife as a shrew. In the exploration of societal portrayals of Job and his Wife throughout history, this book discovers how arguments about marriage intertwine with not only gender roles, but also, with political, social, and historical movements.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-08-29
Mått:156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt:517 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Antal sidor:240
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780567239211

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

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Katherine Low is Assistant Professor of Religion and Chaplain at Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Virginia, USA. She has published articles in JSOT, Journal of Religion and Film and Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, exploring the intersections of religion, gender, and culture.

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Low examines how people understood Job’s wife in various historical periods. Shebegins in late antiquity, covering sermons, commentaries, and art pieces from the medieval, Renaissance, Reformation, and modern periods. The interpretation of Job’s wife through the ages reveals the prejudices of the interpreters, particularly their attitudes toward women and marriage. Over the years, interpreters compared Job’s wife to Eve, Satan, the ideal wife, and the shrewish wife. L. approaches her topic through the lens of feminist theory, or genders tudies, highlighting the woman’s voice in the text, often silenced or displaced by other concerns. She uncovers how patriarchal interpretation diminishes women. She says, “Job’s wife comes to represent a whole package of assumptions about marriage, female vulnerability to satan, and religious expectations of gendered behavior” (p. 23).

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction1.Eden's Dunghill and the Wife's Deviant Speech2. The Troublesome Trip of Job, His Wife, and Satan in Medieval Art3. Satan's Disappearance and Job's Wife as Renaissance Shrew4. Job's Wife's Place in the Woman Question, Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries5. William Blake's Sublime6. Job and Job's Wife as Emanation7. ConclusionBibliography