Ranks
15th on The Fictional 100
The following books will introduce you to Job, who said these
words in Job 13:15 (Revised Standard Version). To order a book, or for more information, follow book title
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characters.
- New
Oxford Annotated Bible. Oxford University Press,
1991.
- A beautifully produced personal study bible at a
reasonable price. Includes informative overviews
of each book, and excellent footnotes keyed to
verses.
- Jung, Carl. Answer
to Job. Princeton University Press, 1972.
- The brilliant psychoanalyst, Freud's most famous
student, tackles Job and the problem of God's
justice.
- Miles, Jack. God:
A Biography. New York: Random House, 1996.
- Provocative and persuasive chapters on Job in
this bestseller.
- Alter, Robert and Kermode, Frank. (Eds.). The
Literary Guide to the Bible. Harvard University
Press, 1990.
- Insightful chapter on Job by Moshe Greenberg, who
contrasts "Job the patient" with
"Job the impatient."
- MacLeish, Archibald. J.B.
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1957.
- A powerful modern dramatization of Job's story by
this great American poet.
- Safire, William. The
First Dissident: The Book of Job in Today's Politics.
New York: Random House, 1992.
- The journalist gives Job's challenge to God's
authority a political slant.
- Girard, René. Job:
The Victim of His People. Stanford University Press,
1987.
- Job seen as the scapegoat of his community.
- Friedman, Maurice. "The Modern Job: On Melville,
Dostoievsky, and Kafka." Judaism 12(4)
(1963): 436-455.
- Job as literary paradigm in the monumental works
of these three novelists. Their characters draw
on both aspects of Job, as sufferer and
challenger. (See also Ahab
and the Brothers
Karamazov)
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