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Priddy, David Wayne 2016-05-21T08:35:53Z 2016-05-21T08:35:53Z 2016 https://wakespace.lib.wfu.edu/handle/10339/59322 In this thesis, I argue that the Book of Job constructs a rhetorical situation that positions the reader into a dialogical encounter with Job’s suffering body and the reader’s own embodied experience. Challenging foundational assumptions of biblical criticism, such as the dualisms of subject/object, subjectivity/objectivity, and corporeality/language, I claim that the reader is an embodied subject whose embodiment contextualizes this sensory-engaging drama, rendering the Book of Job a phenomenal experience. Backing this perspective, I appeal to phenomenological theories of human subjectivity and rationality; theories of metaphor and language; and work in the analytic tradition, such cognitive linguistics and cognitive science. Ultimately, this frame is conducive to a postmodern hermeneutical context that values a plurality of voices, without slipping into a deconstructive posture or interpretative relativism. Most of all, this reading style provides a fruitful and intelligible angle on the Book of Job. en Wake Forest University embodiment hermeneutics Job metaphor phenomenology suffering Sensing the Vexation: an Embodied Reading of the Book of Job Thesis Hoglund, Kenneth Walls, Neal Whitaker, Jarrod Religion open.access