The Testament of Job: Text, Narrative and Reception History
Overview
Maria Haralambakis provides a wide-ranging study of the pseudepigraphal Testament of Job. She begins with textual issues, considering the recent publication of a 4th century Coptic codex of the text, as well as the more well-known Byzantine Greek manuscripts and a much larger number of Slavonic manuscripts. Rather than working backwards from the most recent manuscripts to a hypothetical original text, Haralambakis presents the manuscripts from earliest to latest as a succession of witnesses to the text of the Testament of Job, each valuable as evidence of its contemporary world. Haralambakis moves on to examine the structure of the Testament as a remarkable literary work, employing narrative theory to demonstrate how the composition works as a well-crafted story. Gleaning insights from the text’s widespread presence in Byzantine and Slavonic Christian churches, Haralambakis examines its reception history, asserting that, in these contexts, the story came to be viewed as something akin to the life of a saint.
- Title: The Testament of Job: Text, Narrative and Reception History
- Author: Maria Haralambakis
- Series: Library of Second Temple Studies
- Volume: 80
- Publishers: T&T Clark, Bloomsbury
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2015
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Bible. O.T. Job › Criticism, interpretation, etc
- ISBNs: 9780567064981, 0567064980
- Resource ID: LLS:TSTMNTJB
- Resource Type: text.monograph.ancient-manuscript.translation
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