When Job Falls Ill

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Devoge, J. (2009). When Job Falls Ill: Literary and Iconographical Study of a Biblical Scene from the Septuagint, (33), 9-18. doi:10.2298/ZOG0933009D
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Title

When Job Falls Ill

Subtitle

Literary and Iconographical Study of a Biblical Scene from the Septuagint

Author

Jeanne, Devoge

Journal

Zograf

Volume
Issue

33

Start page

9

End page

18

ISSN

0350-1361

ISBN
DOI

10.2298/ZOG0933009D

URL

http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/Article.aspx?ID=0350-13610933009D

Date

2009-2020/03/11/09:53:53

Abstract

The particular scene from the Book of Job where Job falls ill, struck down by Satan (Job, II, 1-8), is studied from the link between the Septuagint text and the images that illustrate it. The text, transcribed and translated reveals the vocabulary of the body and the disease of Job, supported by the comments of the Greek Fathers that surround it. Compared with the description of some images issued from the iconographical cycles created especially for the Byzantine Books of Job, the text appears clear and concise. Thus, the text offered large scope for interpretation to the manuscript's painters: the numerous variants of the scene where Job falls ill indicate this.

Keywords

Septuagint, Satan, Byzantine miniatures, disease, illuminated manuscripts, Job, Job’s wife