Introduction to Job

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A.God’s first speech: his sovereign power (38:1-40:2)

B.Job’s response: his self-renunciation (40:3-5)

C.God’s second speech: Job’s impotence (40:6-41:34)

D.Job’s response: his repentance (42:1-6)

V.The Scene after the Test (42:7-17)

A.Job and his three comforters (42:7-9)

B.Job and his family (42:10-17)

Job 2100?-1900?

Eheduanna, the daughter of Sargon of Akkad, is the world’s oldest known author whose works are written in cuneiform. 2285-2250

The Dispute Between a Man and His Ba, Egyptian parallel to Job 2280-2050

The Great Ziggurat at Ur 2200

Death in combat of Ur-nammu (king of Sumer, Ur, and Akkad) who standardized the weights and measures, and formulated a system of law that tried to establish justice for the underprivileged 2095

Jacob 2006-1859

The Protests of the Eloquent Peasant, Egyptian parallel to Job 2000

Man and His God, Sumerian parallel to Job 2000

Potter’s wheel introduced to Crete 1900

Egyptian town of El Lahun gives evidence of town planning with streets at right angles. 1900

Mesopotamian mathematicians discover what later came to be called the “Pythagorean theorem.” 1900

Multiplication tables appear in Mesopotamia. 1900

Khnumhotep II, an architect of Pharaoh Amenemhet II, develops encryption. 1900

Joshua 1490?-1380?

The Admonition of Ipu-wer, Egyptian parallel of Job 1850-1600

Ludlul Bel Nemeqi, Tabu-utul-Bel, Babylonian parallel to Job 1700

Epic of Keret, Canaanite, extant copy 1360. Original date unknown

I Will Praise the Lord of Wisdom, Mesopotamian 1290

The Babylonian Theodicy, Mesopotamian 1100