Basic Bibliography on the Book of Job
Commentaries
Alter, Robert. The Wisdom Books. New York: Norton, 2010.
Andersen, Francis I. Job: An Introduction and Commentary. Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1976.
Clines, David J. A. Job 1–20. Word Biblical Commentary. Vol. 17. Waco, Tex.: Word, 1989.
________. Job 21–37. Word Biblical Commentary. Vol. 18A. Nashville: Nelson, 2006.
________. Job 38–42. Word Biblical Commentary. Vol. 18B. Nashville: Nelson, 2011.
Dhorme, Édouard. A Commentary on the Book of Job. Translated by Harold Knight, with prefatory notes by H. H. Rowley and preface by Francis I. Anderson. Nashville: Nelson, 1984. Repr. London: T. Nelson, 1967. Translation of Le livre de Job. Paris: Victor Lecoffre, 1926.
Gordis, Robert. The Book of Job: Commentary, New Translation and Special Studies. Moreshet Series, Studies in Jewish History, Literature and Thought, vol. 2. New York: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1978.
Habel, Norman. The Book of Job: A Commentary. Old Testament Library. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1985.
Hartley, John E. The Book of Job. New International Commentary on the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1988.
Janzen, J. Gerald. Job. Interpretation. Atlanta: John Knox, 1985.
Longman, Tremper, III. Job. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2012.
Pope, Marvin. Job. 3rd ed. Anchor Bible. New York: Doubleday, 1973.
Rowley, H. H. Job. New Century Bible. Greenwood, S.C.: Attic, 1976.
Smick, Elmer B., and Tremper Longman III (reviser). “Job.” Pages 675–921 in The Expositor’s Bible Commentary, rev. ed., vol. 4. Edited by Tremper Longman III. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2010.
Wilson, Gerald H. Job. New International Biblical Commentary: Old Testament Series 10. Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 2007.
Becton, Randy. Does God Care When We Suffer and Will He Do Anything About It? Grand Rapids: Baker, 1988.
Boyd, Gregory A. Is God to Blame? Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2003.
Brown, William P. “The Deformation of Character: Job 1–31”; “The Reformation of Character: Job 32–42.” Pages 50–119 in Character in Crisis: A Fresh Approach to the Wisdom Literature of the Old Testament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1996.
Cheney, Michael. Dust, Wind and Agony: Character, Speech and Genre in Job. Coniectanea Biblica Old Testament Series 36. Lund: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1994.
Cornelius, Izak. “Job.” Pages 246–315 in The Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary: Old Testament. Vol. 5. Edited by John H. Walton. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2009.
Fretheim, Terence E. Creation Untamed. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2010.
Fyall, Robert S. Now My Eyes Have Seen You: Images of Creation and Evil in the Book of Job. New Studies in Biblical Theology 12. Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 2002.
Glatzer, Nahum N. The Dimensions of Job: A Study and Selected Readings. New York: Schocken, 1969.
Gordis, Robert. The Book of God and Man: A Study of Job. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965; Phoenix ed. 1978.
Holbert, John C. Preaching Job. St. Louis: Chalice, 1999.
Janzen, J. Gerald. At the Scent of Water: The Ground of Hope in the Book of Job. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2009.
Lo, Alison. Job 28 as Rhetoric: An Analysis of Job 28 in the Context of Job 22–31. Supplements to Vetus Testamentum 97. Leiden: Brill, 2003.
MacLeish, Archibald. J.B.: A Play in Verse. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1958.
Magdalene, F. Rachel. On the Scales of Righteousness: Neo-Babylonian Trial Law and the Book of Job. Brown Judaic Studies 348. Providence, R.I.: Brown Judaic Studies, 2007.
Newsom, Carol A. The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
Ticciati, Susannah. Job and the Disruption of Identity. London: T&T Clark/Continuum, 2005.
Weiss, Meir. The Story of Job’s Beginning—Job 1–2: A Literary Analysis. Jerusalem: Magnes, 1983.
Westermann, Claus. The Structure of the Book of Job: A Form-Critical Analysis. Translated by Charles A. Muenchow. Philadelphia: Fortress, 1981.
Whitney, K. William. Two Strange Beasts: Leviathan and Behemoth in Second Temple and Early Rabbinic Judaism. Harvard Semitic Monographs 63. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 2006.
Yancey, Philip. Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1988.
———. Where Is God When It Hurts? Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1977.
Zerafa, Peter Paul. The Wisdom of God in the Book of Job. Studia Universitatis S. Thomae in Urbe 8. Rome: Herder, 1978.
Zuck, Roy B., ed. Sitting with Job: Selected Studies on the Book of Job. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1992.
Articles
Albertson, R. G. “Job and Ancient Near Eastern Wisdom Literature.” Pages 213–30 in Scripture in Context II. Ed. W. W. Hallo, J. C. Moyer, and L. G. Perdue. Winona Lake, Ind.: Eisenbrauns, 1983,
Bricker, Daniel P. “Innocent Suffering in Mesopotamia.” Tyndale Bulletin (2001): 121–42.
Dick, M. B. “The Neo-Assyrian Royal Lion Hunt and Yahweh’s Answer to Job.” Journal of Biblical Literature 125 (2006): 243–70.
Diewert, David A. “Job 7:12: Yam, Tannin and the Surveillance of Job.” Journal of Biblical Literature 106 (1987): 203–15.
Gray, John. “The Book of Job in the Context of Near Eastern Literature.” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 82 (1970): 251–69.
Handy, Lowell K. “The Authorization of Divine Power and the Guilt of God in the Book of Job: Useful Ugaritic Parallels.” Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 60 (1993): 107–18.
Hoffman, Yair. “Ancient Near Eastern Literary Conventions and the Restoration of the Book of Job.” Zeitschrift für die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 103 (1991): 399–411.
Irvin, William A. “Job’s Redeemer.” Journal of Biblical Literature 81 (1962): 217–19.
Janzen, J. Gerald. “Another Look at God’s Watch Over Job (7:12).” Journal of Biblical Literature 108 (1989): 109–16.
Mattingly, Gerald L. “The Pious Sufferer: Mesopotamia’s Traditional Theodicy and Job’s Counselors.” Pages 305–48 in The Bible in the Light of Cuneiform Literature: Scripture in Context III. Eds. W. W. Hallo, B. W. Jones, and G. L. Mattingly (Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 1990): 305–48.
Neville, Richard W. “A Reassessment of the Radical Nature of Job’s Ethic in Job XXXI 13–15.” Vetus Testamentum 50 (2003): 181–200.
Shields, Martin A. “Malevolent or Mysterious: God’s Character in the Prologue of Job.” Tyndale Bulletin 61 (2010): 255–70.
Tsevat, Matitiahu. “The Meaning of the Book of Job.” Pages 1–37 in The Meaning of the Book of Job and Other Biblical Studies. New York: KTAV, 1980.
Von Rad, Gerhard. “Job xxxviii and Ancient Egyptian Wisdom.” Pages 281–91 in The Problem of the Hexateuch. London: SCM, 1966.