Moses, Author of Job: Defending the Biblical God in the Roman East

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dc.contributor.authorWogman, Michael
dc.date.accessioned2019-02-21T08:52:05Z
dc.date.available2019-02-21T08:52:05Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.description.abstractInterpretation of Job was existentially important for Late Antique Judaism, faced with the problem of useless suffering on the one side, and with Gnostic challenges on the other. Although most amoraic reactions to it underscore Job’s fault and God’s justice, it seems to be more motivated by anti-Christian polemics, rather than fundamental answer to the questions posed by Job. Still, the association of the book with the authority of Moses implies some other answer to Job, which can be reconstructed from midrashic depictions of Moses and Hellenistic traditions of Job as the mystical seer. Analyzing Job’s influence on both pre-tannaitic apocalyptism and the Talmudic portrait of Moses, we are able to grasp a reading of Job as a theophanic story about an intimate meeting with the Godhead. The rabbis who attributed Job to Moses implied by this ascription a new vision of the world, within which no positive theodicy was possible; instead, a personal relation with capricious and powerful Creator was to be sought by means of Judaic practice.en_US
dc.identifier.citationWogman M. Moses, Author of Job: Defending the Biblical God in the Roman East / Michael Wogman // Judaica Ukrainica : Annual Journal of Jewish Studies. - 2013. - Vol. 2. - P. 21-41.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2305-4034
dc.identifier.issn2305-5278
dc.identifier.urihttps://ekmair.ukma.edu.ua/handle/123456789/15174
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.sourceJudaica Ukrainica : Annual Journal of Jewish Studies. - 2013. - Vol. 2en_US
dc.statuspublished earlieren_US
dc.subjectJudaismen_US
dc.subjectAntique Judaismen_US
dc.subjectJoben_US
dc.subjectGoden_US
dc.subjectMosesen_US
dc.subjectapocalyptismen_US
dc.subjectBibleen_US
dc.subjectrabbisen_US
dc.subjectarticleen_US
dc.titleMoses, Author of Job: Defending the Biblical God in the Roman Easten_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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