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The book of Job begins with a prologue (Job 1-2), which describes a wager between Satan and God, in which Satan (“the adversary”) bets God that Job–a particularly pious man–will abandon his piety and curse God if all his wealth and well-being are taken away.
Job is one of three books in the Bible which, collectively, are known as the Wisdom Literature. (The other two are Proverbs and Ecclesiastes.) Unlike the other books of the Bible which deal more specifically with the Jewish people, these deal with universal questions about justice, piety and the nature of the universe.
The Book of Job, on the face of it, represents an internal criticism within the Hebrew Bible itself of Biblical theology (according to which God is conceived not only as the Creator of...
For the purpose of these synopses, we will generally assume: (a) that Moses wrote the Book of Job; (b) that it is a parable and that Job is a fictional character; and (c) that for the purposes of the parable, Job is not Jewish.
Job is the central character in the book of Job in the Hebrew Bible. The book\'s anonymous author portrays Job as a morally good non-Israelite from the land of Uz who experiences tremendous suffering. Learn more about Job’s story by watching these videos. Job Wisdom Series Video; Job Overview video
A quite different interpretation has been proposed by Matitiahu Tsevat in his essay, “The Meaning of the Book of Job.” Tsevat suggests that the content of God’s speech is intended to convey a picture of the universe deliberately at variance with that held previously by Job and the friends.
The Book of Job —named after its chief protagonist, Job, or Iyov in Hebrew—explores the morality of Divine justice through the experience of human suffering, primarily the suffering of Job himself. In this article: Who Was Job? The Narrative. Job’s Righteousness and Charity. Matters of Jewish Law Deduced from Job’s Saga. Who Was Job?
