sin his children may have have committed without his knowledge. A “feast” (mište) is often associated with noncultic occasions such as marriages (Judg. 14:12, 17), birthdays (Gen. 40:20), treaties (Gen. 26:30), and the cessation of hostilities (2 Sam. 3:20–21). Job’s absence would be strange if this were a communal cultic festival (as Ex. 23:14–17) in which Job would be expected to play a key role as the community leader. By contrast with Danel, the hero of the Canaanite epic (Aqhat II.i.1–19), who