Recent philosophical reexaminations of sacred texts have focused
almost exclusively on the Christian New Testament, and Paul in
particular. "The Book of Job and the Immanent Genesis of
Transcendence "revives the enduring philosophical relevance and
political urgency of the book of Job and thus contributes to the
recent "turn toward religion" among philosophers such as Slavoj Zžk
and Alain Badiou. Job is often understood to be a trite folktale
about human limitation in the face of confounding and absolute
transcendence; on the contrary, Hankins demonstrates that Job is a
drama about the struggle to create a just and viable life in a
material world that is ontologically incomplete and consequently
open to radical, unpredictable transformation. Job's abiding legacy
for any future materialist theology becomes clear as Hankins
analyzes Job's dramatizations of a transcendence that is not
externally opposed to but that emerges from an ontologically
incomplete material world.
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