(a) The Hebrew name of the book is ’Iyyōb, whence the Greek and Latin name Iob and the English Job. The book is a wisdom tractate which discusses the problem of theodicy and the suffering of the righteous that is intimately conected with it. However, other problems are discussed in the work: how the righteous sufferer must behave when faced with obviously undeserved sufferings, or how it is possible to continue to be a believer in an evil world. In this last