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The author regards the Book of Job as the most celebrated of the books of the Bible and the literary masterpiece of the Old Testament, and the object of the present volume is to aid in the better understanding and appreciation of the original, which has hitherto been blocked by defective translations and insufficient consideration of its composite authorship. The contents of Part 1, The origin, growth and interpretation of the Book of Job, are: The folktale of Job and the Book of Job; The three strata in the Book of Job; Changes and additions within the original Book of Job; How a skeptical book was transformed into a bulwark of orthodoxy; The Book of Job as philosophy and literature. Part 2 is then devoted to a new translation of the Book of Job, with plentiful annotations.
+ Booklist 17:138 Ja ’21
“The work shows wide scholarship and in many passages the new version is impressive and beautiful. Yet, after all is said, in spite of the incorrectness of the King James version, in which, according to Dr Jastrow, one line in ten is wrong, one cannot help liking its style better than that of the new version.” N. H. D.
+ − Boston Transcript p3 D 8 ’20 1150w
“Professor Jastrow’s view will have to overcome not only traditional prejudice but also strong emotional attachment to the older view. But his volume is one which students of the Bible cannot ignore.”
+ − Outlook 126:767 D 29 ’20 380w
“This is a vastly interesting and important book, and it isn’t a book for preachers only, but for everybody who makes any pretence at all to an interest in good literature.” R. S. Lynd
+ Pub W 98:1892 D 18 ’20 330w