In Search of the Indian Job

Abstract

legend said to parallel the story of in its essential elements. The majority of such references are to the legend of the pious king Hariscandra; and the fullest accounts of this legend in recent literature may be seen in English in S. Terrien's commentary in G. A. Buttrick (ed.), The Interpreter's Bible 3 (New York and Nashville, 1954), p. 879, and T. H. Gaster's Myth, Legend, and Custom in the Old Testament 2 (1967, 1975), pp. 785, 858,1 in French in S. Terrien'sJob (Neuchatel, 1963), pp. 9-10, and in German in C. Kuhl's Neuere Literaturkritik zum Buche Hiob, Theologische Rundschau 21 (1953), p. 295. Shorter accounts have been given by A. T. and M. Hanson,2 N. H. Tur-Sinai,3 and M. H. Pope,4 and it is also briefly referred to by G. Holscher,5 G. Fohrer,6 and H. H. Rowley,7 as well as by H. J. E. Westerman Holstijn, Een 'arische' Jobeide, Nieuwe Theologische Studien 22 (1939), pp. 52-60 (53) (on this article, see section VI below), and S. P. Rao and M. P. Reddy, Job and his Satan-Parallels in Indian Scripture, ZA W 91 (1979), pp. 416-22 (418) (see further, section VII below). Most of these reports of the Indian tale are derivative from that given by A. Lods both in his article Recherches recentes sur le