Testament of Job
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The Testament of Job (also referred to as Divrei Lyov,
Contents
In folktale manner in the style of Jewish
Unlike the Biblical Book of Job, Satan's vindictiveness towards Job is described in the Testament as being due to Job destroying a non-Jewish temple. Indeed, Satan is described in a far more villainous light, than simply being a prosecuting counsel. Job is equally portrayed differently; Satan is shown to directly attack Job, but fails each time due to Job's willingness to be patient, unlike the Biblical narrative where Job falls victim but retains faith.
The latter section of the work, dedicated like the Biblical text to Job's comforters, deviates even further from the Biblical narrative. Rather than complaining or challenging God, Job consistently asserts his faith despite the laments of his comforters. While one of the comforters gives up, and the others try to get him medical treatment, Job insists his faith is true, and eventually the voice of God tells the comforters to stop their behaviour. When most of the comforters choose to listen to God's voice, they decide to taunt the one remaining individual who still laments Job's fate.
Unlike many Testament of .... works, there is little concentration on ethical discourses, instead the text concentrates on delivering narrative, as well as embedding a noticeably large number of hymns.
One passage concerns multicoloured cords for women to put around their
Montanists
The assertion has been made that the ecstatic speech of the
The letter ends with a reference to life after death; "It is written that he will rise up with those whom the Lord will reawaken. To our Lord by glory. Amen."[4]
Therapeutae
It has been suggested that the work originated from the
Apocrypha categorisation
At the end of the 5th century, the Testament of Job was relegated to the
Publishing
A bilingual Greek and English edition, edited by Robert A. Kraft, was issued in New York by the Society of Biblical Literature in 1974 with
See also
References
- ^ "Wife of Job: Apocrypha".
- ^ [1] Archived 2020-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Divrei Iyov transforms the spouse as a main character regarding the plot that is entire | UNIFAMAZ".
- ^ Testament of Job (Revised English) | Book of Job | Satan.
- ^ Spittler, Russel Paul (1983), 'Testament of Job', in James H. Charlesworth (ed. Old Testament Pseudepigrapha Vol I Doubleday
- ^ Taylor, Joan E., "Virgin Mothers: Philo on the Women Therapeutae," Journal for the Study of the Pseudepigrapha, 12.1(2001): 37-63. doi:10.1177/095182070101200102
- R. P. Spittler, Outside the Old Testament,
- Robert A. Kraft (ed.), Testament of Job. Missoula, Montana: Scholars Press for the Society of Biblical Literature, 1974 (Texts and Translations 5: Pseudepigrapha Series 3).
- R. P. Spittler, "Testament of Job", in: J. H. Charlesworth, editor, Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, volume I Garden City, New York etc.: Doubleday, 1983.
- Raymond F. Surburg, Introduction to the Intertestamental Period,
- Jan Dochhorn, "Das Testament Hiobs als Produkt narrativer Exegese. Eine Studie zur Wirkungsgeschichte des griechischen und hebräischen Hiobbuchs," in Wolfgang Kraus & Martin Karrer in collaboration with Martin Meiser (ed.), Die Septuaginta - Texte, Theologien, Einflüsse. 2. Internationale Fachtagung veranstaltet von Septuaginta Deutsch (LXX.D), Wuppertal 23.-27. Juli 2008 (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010) (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament (WUNT I), 252).
External links
- Online Critical Pseudepigrapha scholarly edition of the Greek manuscript evidence:[permanent dead link] Testament of Job at the OCP
- Jewish Encyclopedia: Testament of Job
- Early Jewish writings: Testament of Job
- [2] Archived 2020-05-27 at the Wayback Machine
- Testament of Job
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