Death and survival in the book of Job : desymbolization and traumatic experience - Mathewson, Dan, 1973- (New York : T&T Clark, 2006)
Introduction: Death and divine justice -- Symboic wholeness and life, desymbolization and death (CHAPTERS 1-2) -- Desymbolized death in job's early speeches (CHAPTERS 3-20, PART ONE) -- Shifting death and the legal metaphor (CHAPTERS 3-20, PART TWO) -- Generalized speech and resymbolization (CHAPTERS 21-31) -- Divine speeches : Symbolic fluidity and the protean self (38:1-42:6) -- Conclusion : Death at the end and the questions of symbolic wholeness and meaning.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-183) and indexes.
Keywords: Bible. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Death -- Biblical teaching