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Death and desymbolization in the Book of Job (Robert J. Lifton).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Death and desymbolization in the Book of Job (Robert J. Lifton)./
Author:	Mathewson, Daniel B.
Description:	285 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0558.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-02A.
Subject:	Religion, Biblical Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3123344
ISBN:	0496706551

Death and desymbolization in the Book of Job (Robert J. Lifton).
Mathewson, Daniel B.

Death and desymbolization in the Book of Job (Robert J. Lifton). - 285 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0558.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Emory University, 2004.

Job is one of the most death-oriented books in the entire Bible. With its depiction of death in the prose tale and its frequent discussions of death in the poetic sections, death emerges as a main topic of the book. In particular, Job, in his speeches, articulates his experience of suffering as the experience of death. However, although the Book of Job foregrounds the death motif, death is not the main topic of the book. Divine justice is. Specifically, the Book of Job probes the problematic aspects of this traditional Israelite moral/theological system by premising the book upon its depicted collapse. In this dissertation I explain the connection between the collapse of divine justice and the repeated depictions and discussions of death in the book.

ISBN: 0496706551Subjects--Topical Terms:

1020189
Religion, Biblical Studies.

Death and desymbolization in the Book of Job (Robert J. Lifton).
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520 $a Job is one of the most death-oriented books in the entire Bible. With its depiction of death in the prose tale and its frequent discussions of death in the poetic sections, death emerges as a main topic of the book. In particular, Job, in his speeches, articulates his experience of suffering as the experience of death. However, although the Book of Job foregrounds the death motif, death is not the main topic of the book. Divine justice is. Specifically, the Book of Job probes the problematic aspects of this traditional Israelite moral/theological system by premising the book upon its depicted collapse. In this dissertation I explain the connection between the collapse of divine justice and the repeated depictions and discussions of death in the book.
520 $a To help explore this connection I turn to the writings of the psychohistorian, Robert Jay Lifton, who investigates the effects on the human psyche of various traumatic experiences (wars, natural disasters, and the like). According to Lifton, survivors of disaster often sense that their world has "collapsed" and they engage in a struggle to go on living. Part of the struggle involves groping toward an understanding of the meaning of death and death's place in the continuity of life. In this light, Job's experiences are similar to that of a survivor. He experiences the collapse of a moral/theological world, which Lifton calls "desymbolization," and he gropes to find meaning in light of this collapse. Throughout the dialogues Job's understanding of death is a flashpoint, indicating his bewilderment in the face of disaster in his early speeches, and then, later on, his arrival at what Lifton calls "resymbolization," the reconfiguration of a world that can account for disaster and render death meaningful again. The Book of Job, therefore, depicts on a literary level the processes that Lifton observes among survivors of disasters. The book moves from symbolic wholeness (operative divine justice in 1:1--5) to desymbolization (the collapse of divine justice in 1:6--2:13 and throughout most of the dialogues) to resymbolization (the reconfiguration of Job's moral world in chaps. 29--31).
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