Read Him Again and Again: Repetitions of Job in Kierkegaard, Vischer, and Barth

In Read Him Again and Again, Andrew Zack Lewis explores the reception history of the book of Job and the hermeneutical presuppositions of its interpreters. He pays special attention to the interpretations of Soren Kierkegaard (in his ""Upbuilding Discourse"" on Job 1:21 and his philosophical novella Repetition), Wilhelm Vischer (in his essay ""Hiob, ein Zeuge Jesu Christi""), and Karl Barth (in Church Dogmatics IV.3.1). In looking at Job in these works Lewis examines how each of the thinker...