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Job : Judaism Terms
159 words, approx. 1 pages
The principal character in the biblical book of Job, which addresses the problem of human suffering: how can a just God explain the human condition, the prosperity of the wicked, and the suffering of the righteous? The book is in two parts, a prose...
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Job, The Book Of : Judaic Terms
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A *biblical book in the *Ketuvim (‘Writings’) section. The Book of Job tells the story of how the upright Job was tested by *God by the destruction of his family and worldly goods. Job refuses to accept that these disasters are the result...
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Job : The Quran
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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 Testament of Job, another name for Job is Jobab. Genesis 36:33 identifies a Jobab, as a descendant of Esau, a king...


Quotations
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Book of Job Quotes
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The Book of Job is one of the books of the Hebrew Bible. Note: There are many different translations of the Bible, and most have some small differences between their texts. Sourced Great men are not always wise, Nor do the aged always understand...


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News and Journals
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Michigan Quarterly Review
Job: The Open Book
04/01/2007: 7,119 words, approx. 24 pages
Thou art indeed just, Lord, if I contend With thee; but, Sir, so what I plead is just. Why do sinners' ways prosper? And why must Disappointment all I endeavor end? -Gerard Manley Hopkins It is one of the...
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The Boston Globe
The book on minority jobs
04/03/1995: 547 words, approx. 2 pages
After posing as a busboy to expose racism at a tony country club three years ago, Lawrence Otis Graham set out to find the best companies in the country for minority professionals. Graham's goal: to write a job guide to 100 Fortune 1,000...
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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).
 
Featured Essays
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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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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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