Perspectives on Jewish Texts and Contexts -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- The Book of Job: Aesthetics, Ethics, and Hermeneutics -- Bibliography -- Is the Book of Job a Tragedy? -- 1 -- 2 -- 3 -- 4 -- 5 -- 6 The Figurative Aspect: "Dust and Ashes" -- 7 The Philosophic Aspect: Elihu -- 7.1 Dreams -- 7.2 Disease -- Bibliography -- Job, the Mourner -- 1 The Problem of Evil -- 2 The Theologian and the Mourner -- 3 Evil, Mourning and the Shrinking of Horizons -- Bibliography -- Whose Job Is This? Dramatic Irony and double entendre in the Book of Job -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Double-Edged Words -- 2.1 Definition of a double-edged word -- 2.2 Double-edged words in context: Proverbs and Ahikar -- 2.3 Identifying a double-edged word -- 3 Dramatic Irony -- 4 Dramatic Irony and Double-Edged Words -- 4.1 Job's alleged accountability -- 4.2 Retribution as a long-term investment -- 4.3 Failed Numinosity -- 5 Summary: Rhetorical Motivations of the Double-Edged Word -- Bibliography -- Reading Pain in the Book of Job -- Bibliography -- Melville's Wall Street Job: The Missing Cry -- 1 The Rise of Job as an Aesthetic Touchstone -- 2 Dead-Wall Reveries -- 3 "I Would Prefer Not to": The Joban Cry -- 4 The Starved Body: The Food of Melancholy -- 5 Fluid Typologies: "Ah Bartleby! Ah humanity!" -- 6 Wall Street's Sublime -- 7 Petra and the Pyramids -- 8 Bartleby as Precursor -- Bibliography -- Kafka's Other Job -- 1 Saving Suffering: Margarete Susman's Judeo-Christian Theodicy -- 2 Bridging the Gap: Max Brod's Positive Jewish Theology -- 3 Revealing Nothing: Gershom Scholem's Negative Theology -- 4 Another Scholem: The Language of Lament -- 5 Kafka's Other Job -- Bibliography -- Joban Transformations of the Wandering Jew in Joseph Roth's Hiob and Der Leviathan -- 1 Job, the Biblical Sufferer -- 2 Ahasver, the Wandering Jew.

3 Roth's Job and Leviathan -- 4 The Signs of the Times -- Bibliography -- Hebrew Poems Rewriting Job -- The Bible on the Hebrew/Israeli Stage: Hanoch Levin's The Torments of Job as a Modern Tragedy -- 1 Cultural and Dramaturgical Contexts for Biblical Theatre -- 2 Hanoch Levin -- 3 Logic and Tragedy -- 4 The Logic of Hanoch Levin's The Torments of Job -- 5 What is Man? -- Bibliography -- Beyond Theodicy? Joban Themes in Philip Roth's Nemesis -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors.