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Translating Job is a difficult affair. The current state of the text shows various additions, deletions, and transpositions. To complicate matters, the Hebrew also contains a number of words found nowhere else in the Bible or terms that are used in idiosyncratic ways. In this poetic indictment of power, Greenstein (emeritus, Bible, Bar-Ilan Univ.; Essays on Biblical Method and Translation) portrays the deity as an ancient despot unconcerned with the lot of hu...Log In or Sign Up to Read More