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In addition, Job is mentioned in the New Testament of the Christian Bible: the Epistle of James paraphrases Job as an example of patience in suffering. Job's declaration, "I know that my redeemer liveth" ( Job 19:25 ), is considered by some Christians to be a proto-Christian reference to Christ as the Redeemer , and is the basis of several ...
The Book of Job (/ dʒ oʊ b /; Biblical Hebrew: אִיּוֹב, romanized: ʾĪyyōḇ), or simply Job, is a book found in the Ketuvim ("Writings") section of the Hebrew Bible and the first of the Poetic Books in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] Scholars generally agree that it was written between the 7th and 3rd centuries BCE. [2]
In folktale manner in the style of Jewish aggada, [2] it elaborates upon the Book of Job making Job a king in Egypt. Like many other Testament of ... works in the Old Testament apocrypha, it gives the narrative a framing-tale of Job's last illness, in which he calls together his sons and daughters to give them his final instructions and exhortations.
McClellan, Daniel (2021), Shannon, Avram R. (ed.), " 'Go Ye and Learn What That Meaneth': Mercy and the Law in the Old Testament's Prophetic Literature and in the Gospels", Covenant of Compassion: Caring for the. Marginalized and Disadvantaged in the Old Testament, BYU Religious Studies Center, doi:10.17613/aw8k-9d82
Jemimah or Jemima (/ dʒ ə ˈ m aɪ m ə / jə-MY-mə; Hebrew: יְמִימָה, romanized: Yəmīmā) was the oldest of the three beautiful daughters of Job, named in the Bible as given to him in the later part of his life, after God made Job prosperous again. Jemimah's sisters are named Keziah and Keren-Happuch. Job's sons, in contrast, are ...
John H. Walton (born 1952) is an Old Testament scholar. He is Professor Emeritus at Wheaton College and was a Moody Bible Institute professor previously. [ 1 ] He specializes in the Ancient Near Eastern backgrounds of the Old Testament , especially Genesis and its creation account , as well as interpretation of Job .
Job (WBC) David John Alfred Clines (21 November 1938 – 8 December 2022) was a biblical scholar. ... Creating The Old Testament: The Emergence of the Hebrew Bible ...
The Testament of Job is therefore thought by several scholars to be based entirely on the Greek translation. [ fn 10 ] Before concluding this brief survey of the textual problems, the remaining Greek translations must also be mentioned, since they were taken into account by the Church Fathers in their commentaries on the Book of Job and could ...