The Many Faces of Job The Premodern Period (Handbooks of the Bible and Its Reception, 5)

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The series Handbooks of the Bible and Its Reception (HBR) provides comprehensive introductions to individual topics in biblical reception history. Based on the multi-volume reference work Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception (EBR), HBR offers broad and in-depth analyses of selected issues found in EBR. The Handbooks address a wide range of interdisciplinary matters, including reception of the Bible in various contexts and historical periods; in diverse geographic areas; in particular cultural, social, and political contexts; and in relation to important biblical themes, topics, and figures. HBR is an indispensable tool for scholars and students in the field of biblical reception. Further information on „The Bible and Its Reception“. This handbook analyses in a comparative method and on an interdisciplinary level how the biblical figure of Job and his texts were interpreted from premodern times until today, highlighting continuities and discontinuities. The first volume addresses the premodern period and includes chapters on Second Temple Judaism, Jewish Interpretations, Christian Interpretations, Islam, Literature, Visual Arts and Music. Acknowledgement Contents Abbreviations List of Figures and Credits 1 Job in Second-Temple Hebrew and Aramaic Receptions 2 The Greek Book of Job and Other Second- Temple Greek Receptions 3 Job in Rabbinic Literature 4 Medieval Peshat Commentaries on Job 5 Medieval Jewish Philosophers on Job 6 Karaites, Mystics, and Anthologizers on Job 7 Receptions of Job in Medieval Jewish Life 8 Job in the New Testament and in the Early Church 9 Job in an Age of Controversy in the Church: Greek Interpreters 10 Job in an Age of Controversy: Latin Interpreters 11 Job in an Age of Controversy: Syriac Interpreters 12 The Reception of the Book of Job in the Syriac Commentary Tradition 13 Gregory’s the Great’s Moralia in Job 14 Gregorian Exegesis of Job in the Latin West from the Seventh to Twelth Centuries 15 Interpreting Job in the Later Middle Ages 16 Receptions of Job in Early Modern Theology (1500–1700) 17 Job in Islamic Traditions and Literature 18 Job in Literature before 1700 19 Musical Receptions of Job from Antiquity to 1700 20 Job in Christian Visual Art: From Late Antiquity to 1700 Index of Sources Index of Subjects Index of Names Index of Modern Authors