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CONTENTS.

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INTRODUCTION 1


THE BOOK OF JOB.

CHAPTER

I. Job's Calamity; the Opening of the Dialogues
(Chaps. i.-xiv.) 11

II. The Second Cycle of Speeches (Chaps. xv.-xxi.) 30

III. The Third Cycle of Speeches (Chaps. xxii.-xxxi.) 37

IV. The Speeches of Elihu (Chaps. xxxii.-xxxvii.) 42

V. The Speeches of Jehovah (Chaps. xxxviii.-xlii. 6) 48

VI. The Epilogue and its Meaning 58

VII. The Traditional Basis and the Purpose of Job 60

VIII. Date and Place of Composition 71

IX. Argument from the Use of Mythology 76

X. Argument from the Doctrine of Angels 79

XI. Argument from Parallel Passages 83

XII. On the Disputed Passages in the Dialogue Portion,
especially the Speeches of Elihu 90

XIII. Is Job a Hebræo-Arabic Poem? 96

XIV. The Book from a Religious Point of View 102

XV. The Book from a General and Western Point of
View 106

Note on Job and the Modern Poets 112

Note on the Text of Job 112

Aids to the Student 115