- Title
- Job: a serious man
- Creator
- Stanley, Timothy
- Relation
- The Bible and Critical Theory Vol. 9, Issue 1, p. 27-37
- Relation
- http://novaojs.newcastle.edu.au/ojsbct/index.php/bct/article/view/549
- Publisher
- Julie Kelso & Roland Boer, Eds. & Pubs.
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- A Serious Man cinematically deconstructs the life of a mid-twentieth century physics professor named Larry Gopnik. A Job-like theodicy ensues in which the paradoxes of quantum mechanics are haunted by questions of good and evil as well as the spectre of an un-named God. Although a number of commentators have suggested the film is based on the biblical book of Job, the following paper argues for its place within a longer history of commentary. To this end, the film provides a radical if not farcical interrogation of theodicy in the after-math of quantum mechanics.
- Subject
- job; serious man; theodicy
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1054873
- Identifier
- uon:15798
- Identifier
- ISSN:1832-3391
- Language
- eng
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