This article tries to make a case that Job was Tobit's son
Tobias.
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It is apparent from reading old and new commentaries on the Book of Job that, after all this time, the holy man has still not been firmly located to any specific historical era. Job comes across as being, like Melchizedek, profoundly mysterious; someone who just appears 'out of nowhere', without a known beginning. The Rev. Frank Knight summed it up when, referring to the book's historical details, he wrote [1]:
The authorship, date, and place of composition of the Book of Job constitute some of the most keenly contested and most uncertain problems in Biblical Criticism. There is perhaps no book in the Canon of Scripture to which more diverse dates have been assigned. Every period of Jewish history, from BC 1400 to BC 150, has had its advocates as that to which this mysterious and magnificent poem must be relegated, and this criticism ranges over 1200 years of uncertainty.
In this article I shall be attempting to narrow down dramatically that "1200" year period "of uncertainty", to a specific era, using a combination of Syrian legends about Job and the apocryphal book of Tobit.
[This message has been edited by judge, 08-31-2003]
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