Protests of Job

Scott A. Davison is Professor of Philosophy at Morehead State University, USA. He is the author of On the Intrinsic Value of Everything (2011), Petitionary Prayer: A Philosophical Investigation (2017), and God and Prayer (2022), and serves as the associate editor for the journal Faith and Philosophy.Shira Weiss teaches Jewish Thought at Yeshiva University, USA. She is the author of Joseph Albo on Free Choice: Exegetical Innovation in Medieval Jewish Philosophy (2017) and Ethical Ambiguity in the Hebrew Bible (2018). Her current project explores the ethics of violence in biblical narrative.Sajjad Rizvi is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History and Director of the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, UK. A specialist on Islamic philosophical traditions since 1600, he is currently working on a monograph on philosophy in contemporary Iran.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Protesting God in Jewish Interpretations of Job.- 3. Forsaken by God.- 4. Ineffability, Asymmetry and the Metaphysical Revolt: Some Reflections on the Narrative of Job from Muslim Traditions.- 5. Reply to Davison and Rizvi.- 6. Reply to Weiss and Rizvi.- 7. Reply to Weiss and Davison.