Texts > Tanakh > Writings > Job

Commentaries

• A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Job: Together with a New Translation (Clark, 1921) - by S.R. Driver

Introduction

• Introduction [to the book of Job] - by Gerald H. Wilson, from Job (New International Biblical Commentary; Hendrickson, 2007), pp. 1–16
• Literature of the Middle Period - chapter 22 of Gerald A. Larue, Old Testament Life and Literature (1968)
• The Book of Job and the Origins of Judaism - by James A. Sanders, Biblical Theology Bulletin (May 2009)
• The Wisdom Literature of the Bible: The Book of Job - by F. F. Bruce, The Bible Student ns 23.2 (April 1952) 57–60
• The Wisdom Literature of the Bible: The Book of Job (continued) - by F. F. Bruce, The Bible Student ns 23.3 (July 1952) 99–103

Job 1–2

• An Unheard Voice amidst the Commotion: Analysis of Job 2:9–10 in Light of the Law of Retribution - by Larisa M. Grams-Benítez, Journal of Latin American Hermeneutics 4 (2011)
• Are the Additions in LXX Job 2,9a–e to be deemed As the Old Greek text? - by Johann Cook, Biblica 91 (2010) 275–284
• Der Antagonist: Der Satan in der Hebräischen Bibel – eine bekannte Größe? - by F. Kreuzer, Biblica 86.4 (2005) 536–544
• False Naivety in the Prologue to Job - by David J. A. Clines, published in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967–1998, Volume 2 (JSOTSup, 292; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 735–44
• Introducing Job (Job 1:1–5) - by Gerald H. Wilson, from Job (New International Biblical Commentary; Hendrickson, 2007), pp. 17–21
• Satan: God’s Servant - by Sydney H. T. Page, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Sept. 2007)
• The Core Story in the Prologue-Epilogue of the Book of Job - by Aron Pinker, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 6.1 (2006)

Job 4

• Job 4.13: A Byronic Suggestion - by David J. A. Clines, published in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967–1998, Volume 2 (JSOTSup, 292; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 745–47
• Verb Modality and the Interpretation of Job 4.20–21 - by David J. A. Clines, published in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967–1998, Volume 2 (JSOTSup, 292; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 748–51

Job 5

• Job 5.1–8: A New Exegesis - by David J. A. Clines, published in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967–1998, Volume 2 (JSOTSup, 292; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 752–61
• Who is the ‘hungry’ in Job 5,5a? - by Aron Pinker, Hiphil 4 (2007)

Job 13

• What Sort of Friends? A New Proposal Regarding (רפאי)ם and (טפלי)ם in Job 13,4 - by Christopher Hays, Biblica 90 (2009) 394–399

Job 16

• Gottes Doppelrolle in Ijob 16 - by E. Kellenberger, Biblica 90 (2009) 224–236
• Job, Hopeful or Hopeless? The Significance of גם in Job 16:19 and Job’s Changing Conceptions of Death - by David Kummerow, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 5.14 (2005)
• La identificación del testigo-abogado de Job, parte I: un estudio exegético de Job 16:19–21 - by Karl Boskamp, DavarLogos 9 (2010) 135–155

Job 19

• Belief, Desire and Wish in Job 19.23–27: Clues for the Identity of Job's 'Redeemer' - by David J. A. Clines, published in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967–1998, Volume 2 (JSOTSup, 292; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 762–69
• Job 19:25 and Job 23:10 Revisited: An Exegetical Note - by David C. Deuel, The Master's Seminary Journal 5.1 (1994)

Job 24

• Quarter Days Gone: Job 24 and the Absence of God - by David J. A. Clines, published in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967–1998, Volume 2 (JSOTSup, 292; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 801–19

Job 26

• The Crooked Serpent - by F. F. Bruce, Evangelical Quarterly 20 (1948) 283–288

Job 28

• A Typology of Personified Wisdom Hymns - by Nozomi Miura, Biblical Theology Bulletin (Winter 2004)

Job 38

• Job 38 and God’s Rhetoric - by Michael V. Fox, Semeia 19 (1981) 53–61
• Job or the Impotence of Religion and Philosophy - by André Lacoque, Semeia 19 (1981) 33–52
• Reading Ricoeur Reading Job - by David Pellauer, Semeia 19 (1981) 73–83
• Satanic Semiotics, Jobian Jurisprudence - by Richard Jacobson, Semeia 19 (1981) 63–71
• Speech and Silence in Job - by Robert Paul Dunn, Semeia 19 (1981) 99–103
• The Sense of the Text and a New Vision - by Frederick J. Bolton, Semeia 19 (1981) 87–90
• The Silence of Job as the Key to the Text - by Alan M. Olson, Semeia 19 (1981) 113–119

Job 39

• The So-called Ostrich in the God Speeches of the Book of Job (Job 39,13–18) - by A. Walker-Jones, Biblica 86.4 (2005) 494–510

Job 40

• The Myth of the Dragon and Old Testament Faith - by John N. Oswalt, Evangelical Quarterly 49.3 (1977) 163–172

Job 42

• Job’s Intercession: Antidote to Divine Folly - by P. Guillaume and M. Schunck, Biblica 88 (2007) 457–472
• The Core Story in the Prologue-Epilogue of the Book of Job - by Aron Pinker, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 6.1 (2006)

Bibliography

• Job - extensive bibliography of print resources

Composition

• The Core Story in the Prologue-Epilogue of the Book of Job – by Aron Pinker, Journal of Hebrew Scriptures 6.1 (2006)

Comprehensive Studies

• Putting God on Trial: The Biblical Book of Job. A Literary, Legal and Philosophical Study - by Robert Sutherland; companion website for a book of the same title, with online manuscript

Dead Sea Scrolls

• A Fragment of an Unstudied Column of 11 QtgJob: A Preliminary Report - by Bruce Zuckerman in collaboration with Stephen A. Reed, The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Newsletter 10 (1993)

Genre

• Job as Proto-apocalypse: A Fresh Approach for Job’s Governing Genre - by Timothy J. Johnson, SBL seminar paper (2004)

History of Interpretation

• Affliction, Patience and Prayer: Reading Job (P) in the Qur’an - Isra Umeyye Yazicioghu, Journal of Scriptural Reasoning 4.1 (2004)

Literary Qualities

• Translating Job—Prose or Poetry? - by J. H. Dobson, Bible Translator 23 (1972) 243–244

Miscellaneous Articles and Essays

• In Search of the Indian Job - by David J. A. Clines, published in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967–1998, Volume 2 (JSOTSup, 292; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 770–91
• Job as Apologetic: The Role of the Audience - by Philip Goochild, Religion 30.2 (April 2000)
• Job, Debate, and the Shaping of Lives - by Susannah Ticciati, Journal of Scriptural Reasoning 4.1 (2004)
• Job in Conversation with Edward Said: The “Outsider” as Ethical and Pedagogical Dilemma in Biblical Interpretation - by Alissa Jones Nelson, SBL Forum (January 2009)
• Job: Second Thoughts in the Land of Uz - by Thomas G. Long, Theology Today 45.1 (1988)
• Prototypic Horror: The Genre of the Book of Job - by Roger C. Schlobin, Semeia 60 (1992) 23–38
• Qoheleth and Job: Diverse Responses to the Enigma of Evil - by Rosemary Dewey, Spirituality Today 37 (1985) 314–325
• Reasoning with Violent Scripture: With a Little Help from Job - by Edward Kessler, Journal of Scriptural Reasoning 4.1 (2004)
• The Arguments of Job's Three Friends - by David J. A. Clines, published in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967–1998, Volume 2 (JSOTSup, 292; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 719–34
• The Book of Job and Riceour’s Hermeneutics - by Loretta Dornisch, Semeia 19 (1981) 3–21
• The Cohesive Issue of Mishpat in Job - by Carl Shultz, Houghton College
• The Goodness of Job’s Bad Arguments - by Nicholas Adams, Journal of Scriptural Reasoning 4.1 (2004)
• The Promise of Technology versus God's Promise in Job - by David Strong, Theology Today 48.2 (1991)
• The Unreliable Narrator of Job - by James W. Watts, pp. 168–180 in The Whirlwind: Essays on Job, Hermeneutics, and Theology in Honor of Jane Morse (ed. Corrine Patton, Steven Cook, and James Watts; JSOTSup 336; Sheffield Academic Press, 2001)
• Those Golden Days: Job and the Perils of Nostalgia - by David J. A. Clines, published in On the Way to the Postmodern: Old Testament Essays 1967–1998, Volume 2 (JSOTSup, 292; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1998), pp. 792–800
• Why, God? A Tale of Two Sufferers - by Burton Z. Cooper, Theology Today 42.4 (1986)

Pedagogy

• Extending the Circle of Study: Job and Scriptural Reasoning in the Undergraduate Setting - by William J. Heckner and Willie Young, Journal of Scriptural Reasoning 4.1 (2004)

Theology

• “Suffering Job”: Scriptural Reasoning and the Problem of Evil - by William Wesley Elkins, Journal of Scriptural Reasoning 4.1 (2004)

Book Reviews

• Balentine, Samuel E., Job (Smyth & Helwys Bible Commentary; Smith & Helwys, 2006) - reviewed by Willem A. M. Beuken, Review of Biblical Literature (2007)
• Basset, Lytta, Holy Anger: Jacob, Job, Jesus (Eerdmans, 2007) - reviewed by Jutta Jokiranta, Review of Biblical Literature (2009)
• Burrell, David B., Deconstructing Theodicy: Why Job Has Nothing to Say to the Puzzle of Suffering (Brazos, 2007) - reviewed by Timothy Johnson, Anglican Theological Review (Winter 2009)
• Crouch, Walter B., Death and Closure in Biblical Narrative (Peter Lang, 2000) - reviewed by Linda M. MacCammon, Review of Biblical Literature (2000)
• Gentry, Peter John, The Asterisked Materials in the Greek Job (SBL, 1995) - reviewed by Johann Cook, TC 2 (1997)
• Krüger, Thomas, Manfred Oeming, Konrad Schmid and Christoph Uehlinger, eds., Das Buch Hiob und seine Interpretationen: Beiträge zum Hiob-Symposium auf dem Monte Verità vom 14.-19. August 2005 (Theologischer Verlag Zurich, 2007) - reviewed by Philippe Guillaume, Review of Biblical Literature (2009)
• Magdalene, F. Rachel, On the Scales of Righteousness: Neo-Babylonian Trial Law and the Book of Job (Brown Judaic Studies, 2007) - reviewed by Markus Witte, Review of Biblical Literature (2008)
• Murphy, Roland E., The Book of Job: A Short Reading (Paulist, 1999) - reviewed by David M. Bossman, Biblical Theology Bulletin (Spring 2000)
• Nam, Duck-Woo, Talking about God: Job 42:7–9 and the Nature of God in the Book of Job (Lang, 2003)
  • Reviewed by Edward L. Greenstein, Review of Biblical Literature (2004)
  • Reviewed by Carole R. Fontaine, Review of Biblical Literature (2004)
• Newsom, Carol A., The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations (Oxford, 2003)
  • Reviewed by Carolyn J. Sharp, Review of Biblical Literature (2004)
  • Reviewed by Michael S. Moore, Review of Biblical Literature (2004)
• Pyeon, Yohan, You Have Not Spoken What Is Right About Me: Intertextuality and the Book of Job (Peter Lang, 2003) - reviewed by Edward L. Greenstein, Review of Biblical Literature (2003)
• Reitman, James, Unlocking Wisdom: Forming Agents of God in the House of Mourning (Springfield, Miss.: 21st Century) - reviewed by Craig G. Bartholomew, Review of Biblical Literature (2010)
• Sutherland, Robert, Putting God on Trial: The Biblical Book of Job (Trafford, 2004) - reviewed by Alice M. Sinnott, Review of Biblical Literature (2004)
• Ticciati, Susannah, Job and the Disruption of Identity: Reading Beyond Barth (T&T Clark, 2005) - reviewed by Francis Dalrymple-Hamilton, Review of Biblical Literature (2009)
• Wharton, James A., Job (Westminster John Knox, 1999) - reviewed by Michael S. Cheney, Review of Biblical Literature (2000)
• Wilson, Gerald H., Job (New International Biblical Commentary; Hendrickson/Paternoster, 2007)
  • Reviewed by Andrew David Naselli, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (December 2007)
  • Reviewed by Katherine Dell, Review of Biblical Literature (2008)
  • Reviewed by Robert Williamson, Jr., Biblical Theology Bulletin (February 2009)