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Book of Job

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Job Summary
3,124 words, approx. 10 pages
JOB. The biblical Book of Job is included among the Writings (Ketubim) in the Hebrew Bible and among the Poetic books in the Old Testament. Along with Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Sirach, it is part of the wisdom literature of ancient Israel. The...
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Book of Job Information
7,083 words, approx. 24 pages
The Book of Job (איוב) is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. Job is a didactic poem set in a prose framing device. According to the <i>Testament of Job</i>, another name for Job is Jobab. Genesis 36:33 identifies a Jobab, as a descendant of Esau,...


News and Journals
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The New York Observer
An Inexplicable Disaster Unfolds in the Living Room
1/9/2005: 1,009 words, approx. 3 pages
If my last venture in charity had been the Oil for Food program, which fleeced the starving in order to enrich Saddam Hussein, I would not have criticized America's first response to the tsunami. But now that the choppers and the money (public and private)...
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AP News
`Gospel of wealth' facing scrutiny
12/27/2007: 1,132 words, approx. 4 pages
The message flickered into Cindy Fleenor's living room each night: Be faithful in how you live and how you give, the television preachers said, and God will shower you with material riches.And so the 53-year-old accountant from the Tampa, Fla., area pledged $500 a year...
 


Criticism and Essays
Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Moshe Greenberg
10,179 words, approx. 34 pages
An American professor of the Bible and of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures, Greenberg has published works that include The Religion of Israel (1963) and Introduction to Hebrew (1964). In the following essay he offers an analysis of The Book of Job, examining problems of inconsistency within the text and considering several possible interpretations of the work's meaning.
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Critical Essay by Josiah Royce
9,827 words, approx. 33 pages
Royce was an American philosopher whose writings encompass the fields of mathematical logic, psychology, metaphysics, religion, and social ethics. He is noted for developing an idealist philosophy emphasizing individuality and the human will rather than intellect. In the following excerpt from his essay "The Problem of Job" in Studies of Good and Evil (1898), he examines the problem of suffering as depicted in The Book of Job, employing the tenets of philosophical idealism, by which God may b...
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Critical Essay by Marvin H. Pope
8,105 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following excerpt from his introduction to The Anchor Bible: Job, Pope examines several points of critical debate surrounding The Book of Job: the question of textual integrity, the form and origin of the book, the place of the work in the literary canon, and the philosophical and educational intentions of the book's author(s).
 
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Essay Grade: 92%
Arrogance in Oedipus Rex and Job
4,307 words, approx. 14 pages
Compares the theme of arrogance in the Book of Job and the Sophocles play Oedipus Rex. Summarizes each text and compares the character of Oedipus to Job.
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Essay Grade: 86%
The Moral Development of Job and Arjuna
578 words, approx. 2 pages
Examines the Moral Learning and Development of Job and Arjuna as described in the Book of Job and The Bhagavad-Gita.


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