A Companion to Job in the Middle Ages

500 Pages·2017·5.032 MB·English

by  Franklin T. Harkins, Aaron Canty

A Companion to Job in the Middle Ages
Brill’s Companions to the
Christian Tradition
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Volume 73
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A Companion to Job
in the Middle Ages
Edited by
Franklin T. Harkins
Aaron Canty
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Cover illustration: Job with his wife and his friends, Book of Job with Commentary, 11th-12th century, Paris,
Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 17959, fol. 3v (photo: Bibliothèque nationale de France).
Names: Harkins, Franklin T., editor.
Title: A companion to Job in the Middle Ages / edited by Franklin T. Harkins,
Aaron Canty.
Description: Leiden : Boston : Brill, 2016. | Series: Brill’s companions to
the Christian tradition, issn 1871-6377 ; volume 73 | Includes
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Subjects: lcsh: Bible. Job--Criticism, interpretation, etc.--History--Middle
Ages, 600-1500. | Job (Biblical figure)--In literature.
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Contents
List of Figures and Diagrams vii
Abbreviations ix
Notes on Contributors xi
Introduction 1
Franklin T. Harkins and Aaron Canty
Part 1
Exegetical and Theological Perspectives
1 Job in the Ancient Versions and the Pseudepigrapha 13
Angela Kim Harkins
2 Job in Patristic Commentaries and Theological Works 34
Kenneth B. Steinhauser
3 Job’s Sin in the Moralia of Gregory the Great 71
Carole Straw
4 Job in the Glossa Ordinaria on the Bible 101
Lesley Smith
5 From the Fiery Heaven to the Fire of Hell: Job in the Sentences
Commentaries of Albert the Great, Bonaventure, and Thomas
Aquinas 129
Franklin T. Harkins
6 Christ and the Eternal Extent of Divine Providence in the Expositio
super Iob ad litteram of Thomas Aquinas 161
Franklin T. Harkins
7 A Passionate Dispute Over Divine Providence: Albert the Great’s
Commentary on the Book of Job 201
Ruth Meyer
vi contents
8 Nicholas of Lyra’s Literal Commentary on Job 225
Aaron Canty
9 Job in the German Reformation 254
Ronald K. Rittgers
Part 2
Vernacular and Popular Perspectives
10 Look upon My Affliction (Job 10:15): The Depiction of Job in the
Western Middle Ages 289
Gamble L. Madsen
11 The Book of Job in Latin Biblical Poetry of the Later Middle Ages 324
Greti Dinkova-Bruun
12 The Book of Job and the Figure of Job in Old English Literature 354
Martin Chase
13 Patience on Pilgrimage: Job in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales 392
Jane Beal
14 Job and the Wycliffites 410
J. Patrick Hornbeck ii
Bibliography 437
Index 466
List of Figures and Diagrams
Figures
10.1 Job with his wife (?) or Satan (?), Gellone Sacramentary, c. 790, Paris,
Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 12048, fol. 143 (photo: Bibliothèque
nationale de France, by permission) 295
10.2 Initial with symbols drawn from the book of Job, First Bible of Charles the
Bald, c. 845, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 1, fol. 206v
(photo: Bibliothèque nationale de France, by permission) 296
10.3 Patience with Job victorious over Wrath from Prudentius, Psychomachia, late
10th century, London, British Library Cotton Cleopatra C viii, fol. 12v
(photo: copyright The British Library Board) 300
10.4 Job with his assailants, from Saint Gregory the Great, Moralia in Job, c. 1100–
1150, Douai, Bibliothèque Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Ref. 301, fol. 107v
(photo: copyright cnrs-irht, Bibliothèque Marceline Desbordes-Valmore,
Douai) 303
10.5 Job with his friends; Christ before Gregory and his monks, from Saint Gregory
the Great, Moralia in Job, c. 1050, Cambrai, Médiathèque d’Agglomération
215, fol. 1v (photo: copyright cnrs-irht, Médiathèque d’Agglomération de
Cambrai) 305
10.6 Job with his wife and his friends, Book of Job with Commentary, 11th-12th
century, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, lat. 17959, fol. 3v
(photo: Bibliothèque nationale de France, by permission) 307
10.7 Pamplona, Museo de Navarra, capital of the former Romanesque cloister of the
Cathedral with scenes from the book of Job, c. 1145 (photo: SuperStock, Album/
Oronoz and Museo de Navarra, by permission) 309
10.8 Scenes from Dialogus de laudibus sanctae crucis, c. 1170–1175, Munich, Staats-
bibliothek München, clm. 14159, fol. 4r (photo: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
München, by permission) 312
10.9 Job with his assailants, Manerius Bible, c. 1175–1200, Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-
Geneviève, Ref. 9, fol. 162 (photo: copyright cnrs-irht, Bibliothèque Sainte-
Geneviève, Paris) 314
10.10 Scenes with Job and Christ, Bible moralisèe, c. 1250, Oxford, Bodleian Li-
brary 270b, fol. 208r (photo: The Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, by
permission) 316
10.11 Chartres, Cathedral of Notre-Dame, north transept, right portal tympanum,
c. 1220 (photo: copyright The Courtauld Institute of Art, London) 318
viii List of Figures and Diagrams
10.12 Job with God, Bible, c. 1265, Princeton, University Library Manuscripts Divi-
sion, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, 82, fol. 233v (photo:
Princeton University Library, by permission) 320
Diagrams
4.1 Simple Gloss layout (not Job). Interlinear and short marginal glosses, preceded
by paraph marks 121
4.2 Layout of mss Trinity 20 and Laon 70. Gloss starts in top-left corner and contin-
ues in one solid block. Glosses preceded by lemmata without paraph marks. No
interlinear gloss 122
4.3 Simple Gloss layout (Job). Majority of marginal gloss in one continuous block;
additional short glosses and interlinear gloss. Glosses preceded by lemmata and
paraph marks 124