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If a tree falls by an axe, the stump will, given enough time, grow back. Human beings who fall violently have no such hope–we never rise again. With that image, from Job 17, the book’s title character indicts the violence of the LORD and the finality of that violence. But many centuries later, in a very different book, Philip S. Thomas enlists that image to do very different rhetorical work, and that’s what we’re here to investigate. Dr. Thomas’s new book Hope for a Tree: Artistic Afterlives of Job examines films and poetry and literary nonfiction and other artifacts that take up Job’s lines and do other things with them. The investigation leads to persistently interesting questions that arise from traditions whose books are holy, and Christian Humanist Profiles is glad to welcome Dr. Thomas to Christian Humanist Profiles.
Marie Hause interviews Dianna Anderson about her recent book "Damaged Goods: New Perspectives in Christian Purity."
Nathan Gilmour interviews Ed Greenstein about his recent translation of Job for Yale University Press.
David Grubbs interviews Donald Fairbairn about his new book "The Story of Creeds and Confessions."
