Contested Creations in the Book of Job
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Biographical note
Abigail Pelham, Ph.D. (2009), University of Glasgow, is an adjunct instructor at Luther Seminary. Her articles on Job include Job as Comedy, Revisited (JSOT, 2010) and Job’s Crisis of Language: Power and Powerlessness in Job’s Oaths (JSOT, 2012).
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Academics and educated non-specialist readers alike, who are interested in the Book of Job, creation in the Bible, literary approaches to biblical texts, and the intersection between Ancient Near Eastern combat mythology and biblical texts.
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