Jacob as Job in Thomas Mann's "Joseph und seine Brüder"
- The Book of Job from the Old Testament is juxtaposed in detail with its hypertext in Thomas Mann's novel: the chapter where Jacob mourns for his "dead" Joseph. An argument is made that Mann's awareness of rabbinical literature creates a connection with the Akedah tradition, i.e., different ways of dealing with the sacrifice of Isaac by Abraham in Genesis. The notion that Abraham actually does kill Isaac, as suggested by a medieval rabbinical text, is interwoven into the analysis of Jacob's mourning for Joseph who appears as an Issaac-like sacrificial victim in Mann's novel. A connection is established between Abraham, Job and Jacob as figures whose children are claimed by God, and their reactions to this test are compared.
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| Author: | Vladimir Tumanov |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-364020 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014439628300 |
| ISSN: | 1572-8668 |
| Parent Title (English): | Neophilologus |
| Publisher: | Springer Science + Business Media B.V. |
| Place of publication: | Dordrecht [u.a.] |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2002 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2002 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2014/12/30 |
| GND Keyword: | Ijob <Buch>; Mann, Thomas / Joseph und seine Brüder; Intertextualität |
| Volume: | 86 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Page Number: | 25 |
| First Page: | 287 |
| Last Page: | 302 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 367465035 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 83 Deutsche und verwandte Literaturen / 830 Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur |
| Sammlungen: | Germanistik / GiNDok |
| CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft | |
| BDSL-Klassifikation: | 04.00.00 Allgemeine Literaturgeschichte / BDSL-Klassifikation: 04.00.00 Allgemeine Literaturgeschichte > 04.03.00 Vergleichende Literaturgeschichte |
| 16.00.00 Jahrhundertwende (1880-1914) / BDSL-Klassifikation: 16.00.00 Jahrhundertwende (1880-1914) > 16.15.00 Zu einzelnen Autoren | |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
