num_pages: 118
description: The articles in this book, written by such eminent scholars and critics as Gilbert Murray, Arnold J. Toynbee, and Richard B. Sewall, explore a host of centuries-old questions about "The Book of Job" - its origins, its poetic and dramatic structure, the character and purpose of its unknown author, and its place in Hebraic and ancient literature and in world literature as a whole. The contributors particularly deal with the fundamental question the work has raised through the ages: the question that Kenneth Rexroth in his essay calls "the ultimate mystery of man's existence" - whether evil is consonant with meaningful existence.
language: English
title: The Book of Job
titlecomplete: The Book of Job (Twentieth Century Interpretations)
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Prentice-Hall