Revisionen des Mythos: Hiob als Denkfigur der Kontingenzbew#x000E4;ltigung in der deutschen Literatur

Job has inspired German literature like no other Old Testament figure. This volume looks at variants of the story of Job, reading the Book of Job as a meta-myth about literature that has symbolized mastery of contingent fate. Each of the Job texts from the 12^th through the 20^th centuries offers us a contemporary answer to the question: how much freedom of action does man have, and how much of his fate isdetermined by a ‘higher power’?