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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...
One of the most recognizable of these was Jewish Holocaust survivor and Nobel prize winner Elie Wiesel who taught the book of decades and wrote about it extensively as well. Of his own experience with the book, he wrote this: “For years, he [Job] would not leave me; he kept on haunting me. His file remained open, the questions unanswered.”
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
The Book of Job in the Movies: On Cinema’s Exploration of Theodicy and the Hiddenness of God. In R. Burnette-Bletsch (Ed.), The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film (pp. 355-378).
