Major Poems of the Hebrew Bible: At the Interface of Prosody and Structural Analysis: Job 15-42 Book

Table of Contents

Chapter One Example: Threni 5
Second round of the debate

Chapter Two Eliphaz’ second speech and Job’s answer ( Job 15 - 17)

Chapter Three Bildad’s second speech and Job’s answer ( Job 18 - 19)

Chapter Four Zophar’s second speech and Job’s answer ( Job 20 - 21)
Third round of the debate

Chapter Five Eliphaz’ third speech and Job’s answer ( Job 22 - 24)

Chapter Six Bildad (short) and Job (long) ( Job 25 - 28)

Chapter Seven The dialectics of bliss and misery: three speeches by Job complete the debate proper ( Job 29 - 31)
A fourth friend: mediation?

Chapter Eight Elihu ( Job 32 - 34)

Chapter Nine Elihu continued ( Job 35 - 37)
The fifth discussion partner: God himself

Chapter Ten God’s answer from the storm (A) ( Job 38 - 39)

Chapter Eleven God’s answer from the storm (B) and Job’s reaction ( Job 40 - 42:6)

Chapter Twelve Results and conclusions

Appendices I Full syllable counts for Job 15 - 42
II Full figures for all strophes and poems III Five text levels: the figures for the literary units IVa SL-configurations per chapter IVb Distribution of S- and L-strophes over the chapters Va Distribution of colon lengths per chapter Vb Distribution of colon lengths (3-14 syllables) in the book of Job VI Combinations of chapters (syllable counts)
Abbreviations Selected Bibliography Corrections to Volume III Changes to the original Hebrew text The full Hebrew text of Job 3 - 42 in its poetic form