Companion to Job in the Middle Ages

Franklin T. Harkins, Ph.D. (2005), University of Notre Dame, is Associate Professor of Historical Theology at the Boston College School of Theology and Ministry. He has published widely on scholastic theology and exegesis, including Reading and the Work of Restoration (PIMS, 2009). Aaron Canty, Ph.D. (2006), University of Notre Dame, is Professor of Religious Studies at Saint Xavier University in Chicago. He is the author of Light and Glory: The Transfiguration of Christ in Early Franciscan and Dominican Theology (CUA, 2011) and of numerous articles on medieval theology.

• List of Illustrations and DiagramsNotes on ContributorsAbbreviationsIntroductionFranklin T. Harkins and Aaron CantyI. EXEGETICAL AND THEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES1 Job in the Ancient Versions and the PseudepigraphaAngela Kim Harkins2 Job in Patristic Commentaries and Theological WorksKenneth B. Steinhauser 3 Job’s Sin in the Moralia of Gregory the GreatCarole Straw 4 Job in the Glossa ordinaria on the BibleLesley Smith5 From the Fiery Heaven to the Fire of Hell: Job in the Sentences Commentaries of Albert the Great, Bonaventure, and Thomas Aquinas Franklin T. Harkins 6 Christ and the Eternal Extent of Divine Providence in the Expositio super Iob ad litteramof Thomas AquinasFranklin T. Harkins 7 A Passionate Dispute over Divine Providence: Albert the Great’s Commentary on the Book of JobRuth Meyer 8 Nicholas of Lyra’s Literal Commentary on JobAaron Canty 9 Job in the German ReformationRonald K. Rittgers II. VERNACULAR AND POPULAR PERSPECTIVES10 Look upon My Affliction (Job 10:15): The Depiction of Job in the Western Middle AgesGamble L. Madsen11 The Book of Job in Latin Biblical Poetry of the Middle AgesGreti Dinkova-Bruun12 The Book of Job and the Figure of Job in Old English LiteratureMartin Chase13 Patience on Pilgrimage: Job in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Jane Beal 14 Job and the Wycliffites J. Patrick Hornbeck IIBibliography Index

“This Companion is a substantial contribution to the study of medieval Christian exegesis and, needless to say, the larger history of interpretation of Job.”Paul M. Blowers, Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan College. In: Speculum, Vol. 94, No. 2 (April 2019), pp. 537-538.