Job the unfinalizable : : Bakhtinian reading of Job 1-11 / / by Seong Whan Timothy Hyun.

• Superior document: Biblical interpretation series ; Volume 124
• Author: Hyun, Seong Whan Timothy.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, 2013.; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical interpretation series ; v. 124.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (253 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Job the Unfinalizable , Seong Whan Timothy Hyun reads Job 1-11 through the lens of Bakhtin’s dialogism and chronotope to hear each different voice as a unique and equally weighted voice. The distinctive voices in the prologue and dialogue, Hyun argues, depict Job as the unfinalizable by working together rather than quarrelling each other. As pieces of a puzzle come together to make the whole picture, all voices in Job 1-11 though each with its own unique ideology come together to complete the picture of Job. This picture of Job offers readers a different way to read the book of Job: to find better questions rather than answers.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Job in the Chronotope of the Prologue -- 3 Job’s Speeches in His New Chronotope -- 4 The Voices of the Three Friends -- 5 The Dialogic Relationship between Voices in the Prologue and Those in the Dialogue Section -- 6 Conclusion: Unfinalizing Job -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Index of Scriptures -- Index of Subjects.