Book of Job

The Book of Job (איוב, Standard Hebrew Iyyov, Tiberian Hebrew ʾIyyôḇ; Arabic أيّوب ʾAyyūb) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible, or Tanakh, and is also one of the books of the Christian Old Testament. Job is a didactic poem set in a prose framing device.

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Standard Hebrew - Tiberian Hebrew - Arabic - Bible - Tanakh - Old Testament - Didactic poem

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The Book of Job has been called the most difficult book of the Bible. The numerous Exegeses of the Book of Job are classic attempts to reconcile the co-existence of evil and God (in Greek, these justifications are known as theodicies). Job appears both as an invocation to righteousness, a cynical outlook on the idea of righteousness, and a response to the problem of evil. Scholars are divided as to what the original intent of the poem was, and a few even suggest it was meant as a satire against more puritanical upholding of religion.

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Exegeses - Theodicies - Problem of evil

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