Part I: Selected Bibliography

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HEBREW EXEGESIS OF JOB

by

Robert V. McCabe, Th.D.

Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary

4801 Allen Road

Allen Park, Michigan 48101

Fall Semester, 2004

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PART I: SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Albertson, R. G. “Job and Ancient Near Eastern Wisdom Literature.” In Scripture in Context II: More Essays on the Comparative Method. Edited by William W. Hallo, James C. Moyer, and Leo G. Perdue. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1983.

Alden, Robert L. Job. The New American Commentary, vol. 11. Edited by E. Ray Clendenen, Kenneth A. Matthews, and David S. Dockery. Nashville: Broadman and Holman Publishers, 1993.

Anchor Bible Dictionary. S.v., “Job, Book of,” by James L. Crenshaw.

Anchor Bible Dictionary. S.v., “Job, Targums of,” by Bruce Zuckerman.

Andersen, Francis I. Job: An Introduction and Commentary. The Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries. Edited by D. J. Wiseman. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1976.

Anderson, Hugh. “The Book of Job.” In The Interpreter’s One-Volume Commentary on the Bible. Edited by Charles M. Laymon. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1971.

Archer, Gleason L. The Book of Job: God’s Answer to the Problem of Undeserved Suffering. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1982.

______. A Survey of Old Testament Introduction. Revised and expanded ed. Chicago: Moody Press, 1994.

Barr, James. “The Book of Job and Its Modern Interpreters.” Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 54 (Autumn 1971): 28–46.

Barrett, Michael P. V. “Job: The Problem with Problems.” Biblical Viewpoint 21 (November 1987): 17–25.

Barton, George A. Commentary on the Book of Job. The Bible for Home and School. Edited by Shailer Matthews. New York: Macmillan Co., 1911.

Beeby, H. D. “Elihu—Job’s Mediator.” Southeast Asia Journal of Theology 7 (October 1965): 33–54.

Bell, Robert D. “The Truth about Satan (and God) (Job 1:1–2:13; 42:7–17).” Biblical Viewpoint 21 (November 1987): 3–8.

Berry, Donald K. An Introduction to Wisdom and Poetry of the Old Testament. Nashville: Broadman and Holman, 1995.

Blommerde, Anton C. M. Northwest Semitic Grammar and Job. Biblica et Orientalia, 22. Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1969.

Boadt, Lawrence. “Isaiah 41:8–13: Notes on Poetic Structure and Style.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 35 (January 1973): 20–34.

Briggs, C. A. Review of The Book of Job, by A. B. Davidson. Presbyterian Review 6 (1885): 352–53.

Bullinger, E. W. Figures of Speech Used in the Bible. Reprint ed. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1968.

Bullock, C. Hassell. An Introduction to the Old Testament Poetic Books: The Wisdom and Songs of Israel. Revised ed. Chicago: Moody Press, 1988.

Burns, John Barclay. “Support for the Emendation rë˙øb mëqô in Job 24:19–20.” Vetus Testamentum 39 (October 1989): 480–85.

Carr, Cyril F. “A Study of Hapax Legomena in Job with a View to the Date of the Book.” M.A. thesis, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1976.

Carson, D. A. How Long, O Lord. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1990.

______. “Redaction Criticism: On the Legitimacy and Illegitimacy of a Literary Tool.” In Scripture and Truth. Edited by D. A. Carson and JohnD. Woodbridge. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1983.

Carstensen, Roger Norwood. “The Persistence of the ‘Elihu’ Point of View in Later Jewish Literature.” Ph.D. dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 1960.

______. “The Persistence of the ‘Elihu’ Tradition in Later Jewish Writings.” Lexington Theological Quarterly 2 (1967): 37–46.

Ceresko, A. R. Job 29–31 in the Light of Northwest Semitic. Biblica et Orientalia, 36. Rome: Pontifical Biblical Institute, 1980.

Childs, Brevard S. Introduction to the Old Testament As Scripture. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1979.

______. Review of A Commentary on the Book of Job, by E. Dhorme. Journal of Biblical Literature 87 (March 1968): 114–15.

Clines, David J. A. Job 1–20. Word Biblical Commentary. Edited by David A. Hubbard and Glenn W. Barker. Waco, TX: Word Books, 1989.

Cohen, Harold R. Biblical Hapax Legomena in the Light of Akkadian and Ugaritic. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series, 37. Edited by Howard C. Kee and Douglas A. Knight. Missoula, MT: Society of Biblical Literature, 1978.

Cooper, Alan. “Narrative Theory and the Book of Job.” Studies in Religion 11 (1982): 35–44.

Cooper, John W. Body, Soul, and Life Everlasting: Biblical Anthropology and the Monism-Dualism Debate. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989.

Crook, Margaret Brackenbury. The Cruel God: Job’s Search for the Meaning of Suffering. Boston: Beacon Press, 1959.

Crenshaw, J. L. “Popular Questioning of the Justice of God in Ancient Israel.” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 82 (1970): 380–95.

______. “Wisdom.” In Old Testament Form Criticism. Edited by John H. Hayes. San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1974.

Curtis, John B. “On Job’s Response to Yahweh.” Journal of Biblical Literature 98 (December 1979): 497–511.

Dahood, Mitchell. “Chiasmus in Job: A Text-Critical and Philological Criterion.” In A Light unto My Path: Old Testament Studies in Honor of Jacob M. Myers. Edited by Howard N. Bream, Ralph D. Heim, and CareyA. Moore. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1974.

______. “Northwest Semitic Philology and Job.” In The Bible in Current Catholic Thought. Edited by John L. McKenzie. New York: Herder and Herder, 1962.

Davis, M. Vernon. “Preaching from Job.” Southwestern Journal of Theology 14 (Fall 1971): 65–76.

Delitzsch, F. Job. 2 vols. in 1. Translated by Francis Bolton. In Commentary on the Old Testament, vol 4. Reprint ed. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Col, 1973.

Dhorme, EŒdouard. A Commentary on the Book of Job. Reprint ed. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 1984.

Dick, Michael Brennan. “The Legal Metaphor in Job 31.” Catholic Biblical Quarterly 41 (January 1979): 37–50.

Diewert, David A. “Job XXXVI 5 and the Root M’S II.” Vetus Testamentum 39 (January 1989): 71–77.

______. “Job 7:12: Yam, Tannin and the Surveillance of Job.” Journal of Biblical Literature 106 (June 1987): 203–15.

Dillard, Raymond B. and Tremper Longman III. An Introduction to the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1994.

Driver, Samuel R. and Gray, George B. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Book of Job. The International Critical Commentary. Edited by S. R. Driver et al. Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark, 1921.

Eaton, J. H. Job. Old Testament Guides. Sheffield, England: JSOT Press, 1992.

Eissfeldt, Otto. The Old Testament: An Introduction. Translated by Peter R. Ackroyd. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1965.

Elliger, K. and W. Rudolph. Biblia Hebraica Stüttgartensia. Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelstiftung, 1976.

Estes, Daniel J. Handbook on the Wisdom Books and Psalms. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2005.

Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology. S.v. “Job, Theology of,” by Greg W. Parsons.

Fee, Gordon D. and Stuart, Douglas. How to Read the Bible for All Its Worth: A Guide to Understanding the Bible. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1982.

Freedman, David Noel. “The Elihu Speeches in the Book of Job: A Hypothetical Episode in the Literary History of the Work.” In Pottery, Poetry, and Prophecy: Studies in Early Hebrew Poetry. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1980.

______. “Orthographic Peculiarities in the Book of Job.” Eretz Israel 9 (1969): 35–44.

Garland, David D. Job. Bible Study Commentary. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1971.

Gladson, Jerry A. “Job.” In A Complete Literary Guide to the Bible. Edited by Leland Ryken and Tremper Longman III. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1993.

Gordis, Robert. The Book of God and Man: A Study of Job. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

______. The Book of Job: Commentary, New Translation, and Special Studies. Moreshet Series, vol. 2. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1978.

______. “Elihu the Intruder: A Study of the Authenticity of Job (Chapters 32–33).” In Biblical and Other Studies. Edited by Alexander Altmann. Philip W. Lown Institute of Advanced Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, Studies and Texts, vol. 1. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963.

______. “Quotations As a Literary Usage in Biblical, Rabbinic and Oriental Literature.” Hebrew Union College Annual 22 (1949): 157–219.

______. “The Temptation of Job—Tradition Versus Experience in Religion.” In The Dimensions of Job: A Study and Selected Readings. Edited by Nahum N. Glatzer. New York: Schocken Books, 1969.

Grabbe, Lester L. Comparative Philology and the Text of Job: A Study in Methodology. Society of Biblical Literature Dissertation Series, 34. Edited by Howard C. Kee and Douglas A. Knight. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1977.

Gray, John. “The Book of Job in the Context of Near Eastern Literature.” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 82 (1970): 251–69.

______. “The Massoretic Text of the Book of Job, the Targum and the Septuagint Version in the Light of the Qumran Targum (11QtargJob).” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 86 (1974): 331–50.

Green, William Henry. The Argument of the Book of Job Unfolded. New York: Hurst and Company, 1891.

Greenberg, Moshe. “Job.” In The Literary Guide to the Bible. Edited by Robert Alter and Frank Kermode. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987.

Gros Louis, Kenneth R. R. “The Book of Job.” In Literary Interpretations of Biblical Narratives. Edited by Kenneth R. R. Gros Louis, James S. Ackerman, and Thayer S. Warshaw. Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1974.

Guillaume, Alfred. Studies in the Book of Job with a New Translation. Edited by John MacDonald. Annual of Leeds University Oriental Society, Supplement 2. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1968.

Habel, Norman C. The Book of Job: A Commentary. The Old Testament Library. Edited by Peter Ackroyd et al. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1985.

______. “The Role of Elihu in the Design of the Book of Job.” In In the Shelter of Elyon: Essays on Ancient Palestinian Life and Literature in Honor of G. W. Ahlström. Edited by W. Boyd Barrick and John S. Spencer. Journal for ths Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 31. Sheffield, England: JSOT Press, 1984.

Harris, R. Laird. “The Book of Job and Its Doctrine of God,” Grace Journal 13 (Fall 1976): 3–33.

Harrison, R. K. Introduction to the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1969.

Hartley, John E. The Book of Job. The New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Edited by R. K. Harrison. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1988.

Heavenor, E. S. P. “Job.” In The New Bible Commentary Revised. Edited by D.Guthrie and J. A. Motyer. London: InterVarsity Press, 1970.

Hill, Andrew E. and John H. Walton. A Survey of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1991.

Humphreys, W. Lee. The Tragic Vision and the Hebrew Tradition. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1985.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, rev. ed. S.v., “Job,” by J. E. Hartley.

Janzen, J. Gerald. “Another Look at God’s Watch Over Job (7:12).” Journal of Biblical Literature 108 (Spring 1989): 109–116.

______. Job. Interpretation. Atlanta: John Knox, 1985.

Johns, Donald Arvid. The Literary and Theological Function of the Elihu Speeches in the Book of Job. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 8325382, 1983.

Johnston, Philip S. Shades of Sheol: Death and the Afterlife in the Old Testament. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2002.

Jones, Edgar. The Triumph of Job. London: SCM Press, 1966.

Kaiser, Walter C., Jr. Toward an Exegetical Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1981.

Kidner, Derek. An Introduction to Wisdom Literature: The Wisdom of Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 1985.

Kissane, Edward J. The Book of Job: Translated from a Critically Revised Hebrew Text with Commentary. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1939.

______. “The Metrical Structure of Job.” In Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Book of Job: A Collection of Critical Essays. Edited by Paul S. Sanders. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1968.

Klein, William W., Craig L. Blomberg, and Robert L. Hubbard, Jr. Introduction to Biblical Interpretation. Dallas: Word Publishing, 1993.

Kline, Meredith G. “Job.” In The Wycliffe Bible Commentary. Edited by Charles F. Pfeiffer and Everett F. Harrison. Chicago: Moody Press, 1962.

Knight, Harold. “Job (Considered As a Contribution to Hebrew Theology).” Scottish Journal of Theology 9 (March 1956): 63–76.

Lasine, Stuart. “Bird’s-eye and Worm’s-eye Views of Justice in the Book of Job.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 42 (1988): 29–53.

LaSor, William Sanford; Hubbard, David Alan; and Bush, Frederic Wm. Old Testament Survey: The Message, Form and Background of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1982.

Laurin, Robert. “The Theological Structure of Job.” Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 84 (1972): 86–89.

Longman, Tremper, III. “Form Criticism, Recent Developments in Genre Theory, and the Evangelical.” Westminster Theological Journal 47 (Spring 1985): 46–67.

______. Literary Approaches to Biblical Interpretation. Foundations of Contemporary Interpretation, vol. 3. Edited by Moisés Silva. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1987.

______. “Psalm 98: A Divine Warrior Victory Song.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 27 (September 1984): 267–74.

Lucas, Ernest C. A Guide to the Psalms and Wisdom Literature. Exploring the Old Testament, vol. 3. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2003.

McCabe, Robert V. “Elihu’s Contribution to the Thought of the Book of Job.” Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal 2 (1997): 47–80.

______. “The Significance of the Elihu Speeches in the Context of the Book of Job.” Unpublished Th.D. dissertation, Grace Theological Seminary, 1985.

MacKenzie, R. A. F. “Job.” In The Jerome Biblical Commentary. Edited by Raymond E. Brown, Joseph A. Fitzmyer, and Roland E. Murphy. 2 vols. in1. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1968.

Marshall, J. T. “The Book of Job.” In An American Commentary on the Old Testament. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society, 1904.

Martin, Gary W. Elihu and the Third Cycle in the Book of Job. Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 73–9625, 1973.

Meier, Sam. “Job i–ii: A Reflection of Genesis i–iii.” Vetus Testamentum 39 (April 1989): 183–93.

Michel, Walter L. Job in the Light of Northwest Semitic, vol. 1. Biblica et Orientalia, 42. Rome: Biblical Institute Press, 1987.

Morris, Henry M. The Remarkable Record of Job. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1988.

Muenchow, Charles. “Dust and Dirt in Job 42:6.” Journal of Biblical Literature 108 (Winter 1989): 597–611.

Murphy, Roland E. Wisdom Literature: Job, Proverbs, Ruth, Canticles, Ecclesiastes, and Esther. The Forms of the Old Testament Literature, vol. 13. Edited by Rolf Knierim and Gene M. Tucker. Grand Rapids: Wm.B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1981.

Neal, Marshall. “Thoughts on a Happy Ending.” Biblical Viewpoint 21 (November 1987): 43–48.

Newell, B. Lynne. “Job, Repentant or Rebellious?” Th.M. thesis, Westminster Theological Seminary, 1983.

______. “Job: Repentant or Rebellious?” Westminster Theological Journal 46 (Fall 1984): 229–316.

Noegel, Scott B. Janus Parallelism in the Book of Job. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 223. Sheffield, England: Sheffield Academic Press, 1996.

O’Connor, M. Hebrew Verse Structure. Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 1980.

Osborne, Grant R. “Genre Criticism—Sensus Literalis.” Trinity Journal 4 (Autumn 1983): 1–27.

______. The Hermeneutical Spiral: A Comprehensive Introduction to Biblical Interpretation. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1991.

Parsons, Gregory W. “A Biblical Theology of Job 38:1–42:6.” Th.D. dissertation, Dallas Theological Seminary, 1980.

______. “Guidelines for Understanding and Proclaiming the Book of Job.” Bibliotheca Sacra 151 (October–December 1994): 393–413.

______. “Literary Features of the Book of Job.” Bibliotheca Sacra 138 (July-September 1981): 213–29.

______. “The Structure and Purpose of the Book of Job.” Bibliotheca Sacra 138 (April-June 1981): 139–57.

Payne, J. Barton. “Inspiration in the Words of Job.” In The Law and the Prophets. Edited by John H. Skilton, Milton C. Fisher, and Leslie W. Sloat. N.p.: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1974.

Petersen, Michael J. “Job 28: The Theological Center of the Book of Job.” Ph.D. dissertation, Bob Jones University, 1994.

Pope, Marvin H. Job: Introduction, Translation, and Notes. Anchor Bible. Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1965.

Popma, K. J. A Battle for Righteousness: The Message of the Book of Job. Trans. Jack Van Meggelen. Belleville, Ontario: Essence Publishing, 1998.

Porter, Stanley E. “The Message of the Book of Job: Job 42:7b as Key to Interpretation?” Evangelical Quarterly 63 (October 1991): 291–304.

Pritchard, James B., ed. Ancient Near Eastern Texts. 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955.

Reichert, Victor E. Job: Hebrew Text and English Translation with an Introduction and Commentary. Soncino Books of the Bible. Edited by A. Cohen. London: Soncino Press, 1946.

Reyburn, William D. A Handbook on the Book of Job. New York: United Bible Societies, 1992.

Robertson, David A. Linguistic Evidence in Dating Early Hebrew Poetry. Dissertation Series, no. 3. Missoula, MT: Society of Biblical Literature, 1972.

______. The Old Testament and the Literary Critic. Old Testament Guides to Biblical Scholarship. Edited by Gene M. Tucker. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1977.

Rowley, H. H. The Book of Job. New Century Bible Commentary. Edited by Ronald E. Clements and Matthew Black. Rev. ed. London: Marshall, Morgan and Scott, 1976; reprint ed., Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1980.

______. “The Book of Job and Its Meaning.” Bulletin of the John Rylands Library 41 (1958): 167–210.

Rude, Terry. “God’s Answer to a Complaining Sufferer (Job 38:1–42:6).” Biblical Viewpoint 21 (November 1987): 37–41.

Ryken, Leland. How to Read the Bible As Literature. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1984.

______. Words of Delight. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1987.

Sarna, Nahum M.. “Epic Substratum in the Prose of Job.” Journal of Biblical Literature 76 (March 1957): 13–25.

Sawyer, John F. A. “The Authorship and Structure of the Book of Job.” In Studia Biblica 1978: I. Papers on Old Testament and Related Themes. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series, 11. Edited by David J. A. Clines, Philip R. Davies, and David M. Gunn. Sheffield: University of Sheffield, 1979.

Scholnick, Sylvia Huberman. “Lawsuit Drama in the Book of Job.” Ph.D. dissertation, Brandeis University, 1975.

______. “The Meaning of Mispat in the Book of Job.” Journal of Biblical Literature 101 (December 1982): 521–29.

Selms, A. van. Job: A Practical Commentary. Translated by John Vriend. Text and Interpretation. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1985.

Smick, Elmer B. “Another Look at the Mythological Elements in the Book of Job.” Westminster Theological Journal 40 (Spring 1978): 213–28.

______. Job. In vol. 4 of The Expositor’s Bible Commentary. Edited by Frank E. Gaebelein and Richard P. Polcyn. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1988.

______. “Mythology and the Book of Job.” Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society 13 (Spring 1970): 101–8.

______. “Semeiological Interpretation of the Book of Job.” Westminster Theological Journal 48 (Spring 1986): 135–49.

Smith, Gary V. “Job IV 12–21: Is It Eliphaz’s Vision?” Vetus Testamentum 40 (October 1990): 453–63.

Snaith, Norman H. The Book of Job: Its Origin and Purpose. Studies in Biblical Theology, 2. Naperville, IL: Alec R. Allenson, 1968.

______. The Distinctive Ideas of the Old Testament. New York: Schoken Books, 1969.

Snoeberger, Mark A. “The Identification of Behemoth and Leviathan in the Book of Job.” Seminar in Old Testament Wisdom Theology, Detroit Baptist Theological Seminary, 2 November 1999.

Soggin, J. A. Introduction to the Old Testament. The Old Testament Library. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976.

Soulen, Richard N. Handbook of Biblical Criticism. 2nd ed. Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1981.

Spriggs, D. G. Two Old Testament Theologies. Naperville, IL: Allenson, 1974.

Stek, John H. “Job: An Introduction.” Calvin Theological Journal 32 (November 1997): 443–58.

Steveson, Pete. “The Misconceptions of Job’s ‘Friends’.” Biblical Viewpoint 21 (November 1987): 9–15.

Stuart, Douglas K. Studies in Early Hebrew Meter. Harvard Semitic Monograph, no. 13. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1976.

______. Old Testament Exegesis: A Primer for Students and Pastors. 2nded. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1984.

Thomas, Derek. Proclaiming the Incomprehensible God: Calvin’s Teaching on Job. Ross-shire, Scotland: Mentor, 2004.

______. The Storm Breaks: Job Simply Explained. Welwyn Commentaries. Durham, England: Evangelical Press, 1995.