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- W174661572 abstract "Twenty-five an unnamed Hebrew poet took up an old folktale and transformed it into a sacred hymn so sublime and yet so shocking to conventional religion that it agitates and exalts us even now. Scholars may place the Book of Job in the age of the Babylonian Exile, following the conquest of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar but to readers of our own time, or of any time, the historicity of this timeless poem hardly matters. It is timeless because its author intended it so; it is timeless the way Lear on the heath is timeless (and Lear may owe much to Job). Job is a man who belongs to no known nation; despite his peerless Hebrew speech, he is plainly not a Hebrew. His religious customs are unfamiliar, yet he is no pagan: he addresses the One God of monotheism. Because he is unidentified by period or place, nothing in his situation is foreign or obsolete; his story cannot blunder into anachronism or archaism. Like almost no other primordial poem the West has inherited, the Book of Job is conceived under the aspect of the universal if the universal is understood to be a questioning so organic to our nature that no creed or philosophy can elude it. That is why the striking discoveries of scholars whether through philological evidence or through the detection of infusions from surrounding ancient cultures will not deeply unsettle the common reader. We are driven we common readers to approach Job's story with tremu-" @default.
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