Introduction


Part I: Methodology and Ancient Versions in the Study of the Book of Job

Urmas Nõmmik
: Hebrew Job through the Lens of Diachronic Poetics -
Stephan Lauber
: "How Long Will You Break Me In Pieces With Words?" (Job 19:2) -
Mark Sneed
: Book of Job: Odd One Out or In? -
Juliane Eckstein
: Text-Critical Research on Job -
Maximilian Häberlein
: Old Greek Job as Ancient Jewish Literature: Literary and Theological Perspectives


Part II: Intertextuality in the Book of Job

Walter Bührer
: Job in Dialogue -
Yasir Saleem
: Intertextual Explorations in Job and the Pentateuch -
JiSeong J. Kwon
: Intertextual Links between Job and Samuel -
James E. Harding
: Why Must Job Be from the Land of Uz? -
Katharine J. Dell / Ellie M. Wiener
: "By the Hearing of the Ear" (Job 42:5)


Part III: Texts of the Book of Job

Françoise Mies
: What is Job's First and Most Personal Question? -
Jakob Böckle
: Job's Ambivalent Perception of Death (and the Hope of an Afterward) -
Tova Forti
: The Enigma of the Qen "Nest" in Job 29:18 -
Stefan Fischer
: The Contribution of Elihu's Theology to the Book of Job with a Special Focus on His Pedagogy of Suffering (Job 33:14-30) -
Lisa Plantin
: God Hears the Cry of the Young Wild Animals -
Hanneke van Loon
: "See Now Behemoth!" -
Tobias Häner
: The Beauty of Behemoth and Leviathan

Marlen Bunzel / Kathrin Ritzka:
"Therefore I Quit, and I Am Consoled Over Dust and Ashes" (Job 42:6) -
Walter Bührer
: Job's Response to God in Its Theological and Redaction-Historical Contexts -
Stuart Weeks
: Job, God, and Self-Respect


Part IV: The Reception and New Readings of the Book of Job

Jason Kalman
: To Gladden the Heart of a Widow -
Lance R. Hawley
: "Like a geber" -
Silvia Schroer
: Homo Faber in Distress