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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN-13
9780567239211
eBay Product ID (ePID)
183552188
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Bibles, Gender, and Reception History: the Case of Job's Wife
Author
Katherine Low
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Religious History, Christianity
Publication Year
2013
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
517g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Katherine Low
Series Title
The Library of Hebrew Bibles/Old Testament Studies