Texts > Tanakh > Writings > Job

Job 1-2

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

Job 2

• Rendering 'Flesh and Bones': Pair Reversal and the Peshitta of Job 2.5 - by David J. Shepherd, Aramaic Studies 3 (2005) 205-213; full text for subscribers only

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

Job 16

• 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)

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 26-31

• Reading Job 26-31 with Bakhtin - by Cornelia Cyss-Wittenstein, Gravitas 1.2 (2000)

Job 28

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

Job 32

• The question of a tiqqun in Job 32:3 - by J A Loader, Journal of Semitics 7/1 (1995)

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 42

• Job as Jobab: The Interpretation of Job in LXX Job 42:17b-e - by Annette Yoshiko Reed, Journal of Biblical Literature 120.1 (2001) 31-55
• 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

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); full text

Introduction

• Literature of the Middle Period - chapter 22 of Gerald A. Larue, Old Testament Life and Literature (1968)

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: Second Thoughts in the Land of Uz - by Thomas G. Long, Theology Today 45.1 (1988)
• Job as Apologetic: The Role of the Audience - by Philip Goochild, Religion 30.2 (April 2000)
• 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
• 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 Concept of Death in Job and Ecclesiastes - by David L. Smith, Didaskalia 4.1 (1992) 2-14; abstract
• 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)

Book Reviews

• 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 - reviewed by Johann Cook, TC 2 (1997)
• 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)
• Sutherland, Robert, Putting God on Trial: The Biblical Book of Job (Trafford, 2004) - reviewed by Alice M. Sinnott, Review of Biblical Literature (2004)
• Wharton, James A., Job (Westminster John Knox, 1999) - reviewed by Michael S. Cheney, Review of Biblical Literature (2000)