The Book of Job : a biography

297 Pages·2013·3.48 MB·English

by  Larrimore

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Lives of Great Religious Books
The Book of Job
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The Book of Job
A Biography
Mark Larrimore
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Larrimore, Mark J. (Mark Joseph), 1966–
The Book of Job : a biography / Mark Larrimore.
pages cm. — (Lives of great religious books)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBn 978- 0- 691- 14759- 8 (hardcover : alk. paper) 1. Bible. Job—
Criticism, interpretation, etc. I. Title.
BS1415.52.L37 2013
223′.106— dc23
2013007556
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Printed in the United States of America
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Contents
List of Figures vii
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 Job in the Ancient Interpreters 25
Chapter 2 Job in Disputation 78
Chapter 3 Job Enacted 116
Chapter 4 Job in Theodicy 154
Chapter 5 Job in Exile 195
Conclusion 240
Notes 249
Index locorum 269
SUBJECT Index 273
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Figures
Figure 1. Targum fragment from Qumran
(Job 41– 42) 7
Figure 2. Byzantine Bible (Job 41) 31
Figure 3. Glossa Ordinaria in a sixteenth-
century edition (Job 19– 20) 33
Figure 4. Biblia pauperum (Job 1:5) 35
Figure 5. Book of Job in Luther’s German
translation of the Bible (Job 1) 38
Figure 6. Leningrad Codex (Job 13) 53
Figure 7. The Prymer (Job 10) 130
Figure 8. William Blake, Illustrations
of the Book of Job (Job 42) 187
Figure 9. Page from Jewish Study Bible
(Job 27– 28) 203
vii
Figure 10. Page from Ryrie Study Bible
(Job 4) 209
Figure 11. Page from Chinese Holy Bible—
Union Version (Job 42) 244
Figure 12. Anna Ruth Henriques, The Book
of Mechtilde (Job 29) 247
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Lives of Great Religious Books
The Book of Job