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This third edition on the book of Job contains numerous new, revised, or augmented notes. Of special interest is the inclusion of readings from the earliest translation of the Book of Job, the recently published Targum (Aramaic translation) recovered from Cave XI of Khirbet Qumran, in the Judean Wilderness near the Dead Sea, perhaps the version which was suppressed by Rabbi Gamaliel. The book of...

6. The day. The Jerusalem Targum places this first heavenly assize on New Year’s Day and the second (2:1) on the Day of Atonement. This is an entirely natural understanding in accordance with Jewish tradition. New Year’s Day is the time of the preliminary judgment, when the good are immediately inscribed in the book of life and the wicked are blotted out. For those who are in-between, neither good nor bad, there is a period of grace until the Day of Atonement and then in a final judgment those fates
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