Job Overview: The Literary World of Job

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Aug 13, 202685:21Religion & Spirituality

Job is not the only ancient book about a righteous man who suffers for no nameable reason. Cultures across Sumer, Babylon, and Egypt wrote about pious sufferers who lamented, searched their lives for a hidden crime, and...

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