Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising

Katherine E. Southwood (University of Oxford, UK)

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English

Routledge
03 September 2020

Classical history & classical civilisation; Religion: general; Old Testaments; Judaism: sacred texts

Series: Routledge Studies in the Biblical World

This book focuses on the expressions used to describe Job’s body in pain and on the reactions of his friends to explore the moral and social world reflected in the language and the values that their speeches betray.

A key contribution of this monograph is to highlight how the perspective of illness as retribution is powerfully refuted in Job’s speeches and, in particular, to show how this is achieved through comedy. Comedy in Job is a powerful weapon used to expose and ridicule the idea of retribution. Rejecting the approach of retrospective diagnosis, this monograph carefully analyses the expression of pain in Job focusing specifically on somatic language used in the deity attack metaphors, in the deity surveillance metaphors and in the language connected to the body and social status. These metaphors are analysed in a comparative way using research from medical anthropology and sociology which focuses on illness narratives and expressions of pain.

Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising will be of interest to anyone working on the Book of Job, as well as those with an interest in suffering and pain in the Hebrew Bible more broadly.

By: Katherine E. Southwood (University of Oxford UK)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9780367462574
ISBN 10: 0367462575
Series: Routledge Studies in the Biblical World
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 03 September 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Katherine E. Southwood is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, UK, and Tutorial Fellow in Theology and Religion and Fellow for Women at St. John's College, Oxford. She is author of Marriage by Capture in Judges 21: An Anthropological Approach (2017) and Ethnicity and the Mixed Marriage Crisis in Ezra 9-10: An Anthropological Approach (2012).