Part of: The Parallel Bible. Old and New Testaments (KJV and Revised Version) The Book of Job (KJV)

Larrimore offers an overview of the reception of the Book of Job and the various interpretations offered for the meaning and significance of the text. No interpretation, he concludes, is adequate. This is not a cause for despair, however. “Recognizing that Job’s questions are not only ‘unfinalized’…

In this volume Kallen argues that Job was originally written as a play and that it carries a philosophical doctrine within it, as did Greek drama. The volume includes the American Revised Version of the Book of Job, which Kallen has restructured into the format of a play.

Martin Buber (1878-1965) includes a discussion of the Book of Job in The Prophetic Faith (1949), which provides an overview the existential confrontation between God and man depicted in the Hebrew Scriptures. Buber argues that this book presents “four views of God’s relationship to man’s…

Robert Frost presents “The Masque of Reason” as the forty third chapter of Job. God stops by to talk with Job and his wife, and tells Job that he had been meaning to stop by for a long time “To thank you for the way you helped me establish once for all the principle there’s no connection man can…

Harold S. Kushner writes from the standpoint of a clergyman trying to help members of his congregation cope with tragedy and understand the link between suffering and God’s will.

Sacks strives for literal translation and consistency in usage in this text. Many of his comments are to provide and understanding of the depth and alternate understanding of Hebrew terms.