The Book of Job as Sceptical Literature by Katharine J. Dell

By Katharine J. Dell

Katharine J. Dell’s dissertation on task, written less than the supervision of John Barton, will lengthy stay a big landmark in task examine. Dell argues that the e-book of task is the most important instance of sceptical literature within the previous testomony and that this class has very important results for all components of analysis hooked up with this biblical ebook.

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93 eg E F Sellin, 1923, finds three solutions (or four with chapter 28) to the problem of suffering in Job and concludes from this that the book is not a unity. He goes on to argue that the prologue and epilogue are not by the same hand as the dialogue and that the author of Job has, with poetic freedom, taken over an earlier popular book and made it the setting of his poem. He finds, however, no tension between the prologue/ epilogue and dialogue. 94 Κ Budde, 1876, ρ 39, and 1896, pp vìi· ff. The idea of the author adapting a popular story for his own didactic purposes is also to be attributed to J Wellhausen, 1871, ρ 555; Β Duhm, 1897, ρ vii; and Τ Κ Cheyne, 1887, ρ 66.

73 See discussions of Chrysostom and Jerome in Ν Glatzer (ed), 1969. Criticai interpretations of Job 29 In the second section of this chapter I shall turn to modern critical evaluations of the message of Job. 74 However the picture of Job which had come about by the end of the Middle Ages, and indeed long before - that of Job as the pious and patient sufferer - persisted throughout the centuries until the modern period. b) CRITICAL INTERPRETATIONS OF JOB i) The Innocent Sufferer "The primary theme is the suffering of the innocent.

61 1 Clement 17; The Apostolic Fathers, (Loeb Classical Library), translated by Κ Lake, London, 1930. 62 Greek original in Apocalypses Apocryphae Mosis Esdrae, Pauli, Johannis, ed C Tischendorf, 1866, pp 34-69. English translation from M R James, 1924, pp 525-555. " See also E Hennecke and W Schneemelcher (eds). Volume II, 1963, pp 533-536, and their section on textual history. The Syriac version of the Apocalypsis Pauli contains a few extra details, for example it has the evil one prompting Job's sons to make their father blaspheme against the living God.

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