Job And the Disruption of Identity: Reading Beyond Barth

Introduction

Part I The Problem of Obedience: Barth on Job
Chapter 1 Barth’s Job as Both Right and Wrong
Chapter 2 Obedience as Self-Examination: Barth on the Story of the Rich Man

Part II Does Job Fear God for Naught? A Rereading of Job
Chapter 3 The Prose Narrative: Transforming Piety
Chapter 4 The Poem
4.1. The Dialogue: Testing Integrity
4.2. The Whirlwind Speeches: Encountering Creation

Part III God, Job and Justice
Chapter 5 Calling God to Account
Chapter 6 An Integrity Beyond the Law

Part IV The Disruption and Transformation of the Self
Chapter 7 The Problem of Obedience Revisited
Chapter 8 Epilogue: Self, Society and World

Bibliography

Dr. Susannah Ticciati is Lecturer in Systematic Theology at King’s College London. She previously studied mathematics and theology at Peterhouse, Cambridge. She has also studied at the University of Gottingen and is an active member of the Society of Scriptural Reasoning.