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The book of Job has been highly spoken of by many, both inside the Christian church and out. Thomas Carlyle, the nineteenth-century man of letters, wrote of it, “I call it, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.… There is nothing written, I think, in the Bible or out of it, of equal literary merit.” Martin Luther described it as “magnificent and...

Jewish Talmud to Moses as the author,11 but that is of a late date and has to be balanced by the fact that the book was placed in the third section of the Hebrew Bible because of its acknowledged anonymity.12 Even so, the idea of Mosaic authorship was widely held until the early twentieth century—and there is nothing impossible in that, seeing that Moses wrote the books of the Pentateuch. Taking this view would place the composition of the book around 1500 BC. No claim for the Mosaic authorship of
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