Job's leviathan: Between Melville and Alter

Ilana Pardes

doi:10.2979/PFT.2007.27.2.233

Job's leviathan: Between Melville and Alter

Ilana Pardes^*

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Department of General and Comparative Literature

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This essay considers Robert Alter's reading of Job in The Art of Biblical Poetry. It uses his close reading of God's Whirlwind poem as a point of departure to discuss Melville's grand homage to Job in Moby-Dick. Special attention is given to Melville's response to the continental advocates of the aesthetic turn in biblical exegesis in his tantalizing juggling of physical and metaphysical leviathans.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	233-253
Number of pages	21
Journal	Prooftexts - Journal of Jewish Literature History
Volume	27
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2979/PFT.2007.27.2.233
State	Published - 2007

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