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

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

AvKatherine Low,Laura Quick

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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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Utgivningsdatum2015-02-26
Mått154 x 232 x 14 mm
Vikt380 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieScriptural Traces
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780567662477

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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).