Subtle Citation, Allusion, and Translation in the Hebrew Bible - Ziony Zevit
9. The Book of Job and Mesopotamian Literature: How Many Degrees of Separation?
Subtle Citation, Allusion, and Translation in the Hebrew Bible - Ziony Zevit
Edward L. Greenstein [+]
Bar-Ilan University
Edward L. Greenstein is Professor Emeritus of Biblical Studies at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. A prolific scholar in both biblical and ancient Near Eastern studies, his Job: A New Translation (Yale, 2019) has won wide acclaim, and he was awarded the highly distinguished EMET Prize in Israel.
Description
The question that ELG addresses is whether sufficient data remain, after being subject to stringent methodological analyses of criteria such as genre, linguistics, socio-historical connections, to claim that Job has a direct acquaintance with Babylonian texts concerning the pious sufferer. His chapter illustrates how the methodological analysis works in the case of Job and demonstrates the types of conclusions that it allows.