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Job 1–21: Interpretation and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

The Hebrew book of Job is by all accounts an exquisite piece of literary art that holds its rightful place among the most outstanding compositions in world literature. Yet it is also widely recognized as an immensely difficult text to understand. In elucidating that ancient text, this inaugural Illuminations commentary by C. L. Seow pays close attention to the reception history of Job, including...

4QpalaeoJobc, dated to 225–150 B.C.E. This terminus ante quem is corroborated by the fact that Job is translated already into Greek probably by the middle of the second century B.C.E. The book of Tobit, composed in the late third or early second century B.C.E., contains numerous affinities with the book of Job. If Job is an inspiration for the story of Tobit, then Job must be dated earlier than Tobit. Most importantly, the fact that there are many affinities between Job and Deutero-Isaiah but virtually
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