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Author : Dan Mathewson
Release : 2006-06-05
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 922/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Death and Survival in the Book of Job by : Dan Mathewson
Download or read book Death and Survival in the Book of Job written by Dan Mathewson. This book was released on 2006-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I interpret the Book of Job as literature of survival, reading the death imagery in Job as the complex articulation of traumatic experience.
Author : Dan Mathewson
Release : 2006-06-05
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 906/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Death and Survival in the Book of Job by : Dan Mathewson
Download or read book Death and Survival in the Book of Job written by Dan Mathewson. This book was released on 2006-06-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Job functions as literature of survival where the main character, Job, deals with the trauma of suffering, attempts to come to terms with a collapsed moral and theological world, and eventually re-connects the broken pieces of his world into a new moral universe, which explains and contains the trauma of his recent experiences and renders his life meaningful again. The key is Job's death imagery. In fact, with its depiction of death in the prose tale and its frequent discussions of death in the poetic sections, Job may be the most death-oriented book in the bible. In particular, Job, in his speeches, articulates his experience of suffering as the experience of death. To help understand this focus on death in Job we turn to the psychohistorian, Robert Lifton, who investigates the effects on the human psyche of various traumatic experiences (wars, natural disasters, etc). 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 this struggle involves finding meaning in death and locating death's place in the continuity of life. Like many such survivors, Job's understanding of death is a flashpoint indicating his bewilderment (or "desymbolization") in the early portions of his 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 - and life - meaningful again.
Author : Seong Whan Timothy Hyun
Release : 2013-10-10
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 116/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Job the Unfinalizable by : Seong Whan Timothy Hyun
Download or read book Job the Unfinalizable written by Seong Whan Timothy Hyun. This book was released on 2013-10-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Markus Zusak
Release : 2007-12-18
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Book Rating : 846/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Book Thief by : Markus Zusak
Download or read book The Book Thief written by Markus Zusak. This book was released on 2007-12-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.
Author : Phillip Finch
Release : 2008-09-30
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Rating : 947/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Diving Into Darkness by : Phillip Finch
Download or read book Diving Into Darkness written by Phillip Finch. This book was released on 2008-09-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finch chronicles the harrowing true story of two friends who plunge 900 feet into the water in South Africa--and only one returns. What happened that day is the stuff of nightmarish drama, but it's also a compelling human story of friendship and of coming to terms with loss and tragedy. 8-page color photo insert.
