The New Student's Reference Work/Job

Job, the hero of the book named after him.  He is said to have lived in Uz, somewhere between Palestine and the Euphrates.  The belief of most scholars at present is, that the book is a dramatic poem and that Job is not a real person, but simply the main character in this poem, as Hamlet is in one of Shakespeare’s plays.  No one is now able to determine the authorship of the book.  As a work of genius and art it has the first rank in Hebrew literature, and abounds in sublime thought.  It shows a man, who through suffering and trial, remains true to his trust in the wisdom of Providence.  The book was, perhaps, written during the exile.  It is ranked with Hamlet and Faust as the three greatest poems of their class.  See Davidson’s Job and Froude’s Short Studies on Great Subjects.