The Book of Job A Biography
Mark Larrimore
- U.S.A. Princeton University Press 2013
- 286tr. hardcover, illustration 20 cm
Larrimore traces Job's obscure origins and his reception and use in the Midrash, burial liturgies, and folklore, and by figures such as Gregory the Great, Maimonides, John Calvin, Immanuel Kant, William Blake, Margarete Susman, and Elie Wiesel. He chronicles the many ways the Book of Job's interpreters have linked it to other biblical texts