“True Wisdom in Job: A Diatribe against Existing Values?”

Bible in its Ancient Near Eastern Setting Unit

In this paper, I investigate Job’s overt claims that challenge other biblical and ancient Near Eastern traditional wisdom. This paper will examine how Job breaks with ancient Near Eastern traditional wisdom and will observe the vestiges of this opposition all the way up to the second Temple Period. I will conclude with suggestions concerning how reading Job as polemic literature in its ancient Near Eastern environment allows the composition to make a unique contribution to the wisdom corpus. See more here…