Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising

This book focuses on the expressions used to describe Job's body in pain and on the reactions of his friends to explore the moral and social world reflected in the language and the values that their speeches betray.

Katherine E. Southwood is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, UK, and Tutorial Fellow in Theology and Religion and Fellow for Women at St. John's College, Oxford. She is author of Marriage by Capture in Judges 21: An Anthropological Approach (2017) and Ethnicity and the Mixed Marriage Crisis in Ezra 9-10: An Anthropological Approach (2012).

Preface 1. Introduction and methods 2. Methinks the Job he doth Protest too Much 3. The Tyranny of Tradition 4. Pride comes before a Fool: Job's loss of Social Status 5. Conclusion: Is the answer for Job blowin' in the Wind? Bibliography Index