The Writings:Job–Sirach Christopher T. Begg, John M. Halligan, and Thomas Hieke 1288. [Wisdom Literature] W. Creighton Marlowe, "The Land in the Four Wisdom Books: Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs," The Earth and the Land, 223-48 [see #1634]. The Wisdom Literature of the OT presents seven different kinds of "land": (1) a governed territory; (2) an unspecified district; (3) the realm of death; (4) the realm of life; (5) personal property; (6) arable ground; and (7) desert or desolate ground as an implied category which can, however, be rendered capable of yielding vegetation. [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.] 1289. [Ibn Ezra Commentary on Job] Eran Virzel, "Abraham Ibn Ezra's Commentary on Job 2:11: The Time and Place of Job and His Friends and the Composition of the Book of Job," HUCA 87 (2017) 113-58. In the early 1140s, while living in Rome, Abraham ibn Ezra wrote a commentary on the Book of Job. In his remarks on Job 2:11, with its mention of Job's three friends and their respective places of origin, Ibn Ezra situates Eliphaz the Temanite chronologically, notes that the rabbis ascribed the authorship of the Book of Job to Moses, and suggests that the book was translated into Hebrew from another language. These statements are well known to scholars and interpreters of ibn Ezra, and his suggestion that Job is a translated book has been widely cited. Nevertheless, ibn Ezra's position on the matter has not been elucidated in depth. In what follows I hope to fill this lacuna. First, as I will explain, ibn Ezra's claim that Job is a translated book is unique. I will likewise point out the considerations that led him to this view, and finally I will discuss its place in the history of the interpretation of Job. [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.] 1290. [Job] Karl G. Wilcox, "Job, His Daughters and His Wife," JSOT 42:3 (April 2018) 303-15. The epilogue and prologue of the Book of Job reveal that Job treated his second set of daughters better than his first: Job's first daughters are invited to their brothers' birthday feasts, but they have no birthday feasts of their own. This reveals a practice of benevolent yet prejudicial exclusion within the Joban family system that contrasts heavily with the epilogue's description of how Job's second set of daughters received "inheritances among their brothers." This contrast raises the question as to what caused Job to change in this treatment of his daughters. A probable answer is suggested by W. in this article: namely, that Job's suffering approximated the experience of his first set of daughters to the extent that Job suffered through no fault of his own and therefore, through his suffering, Job gained empathy for his daughters leading to a remarkable change in how he treated his second set of daughters. It follows that Job's suffering had the purpose of stimulating an ethical conversion on his part that could only have been achieved via Job's unjust suffering. [Adapted from published abstract—J.M.H.] 1291. [Job] Ham Isaïe Wonsic, "La polyphonie dans le livre de Job: une approche dialogique (II)," EstBíb 76 (2018) 339-59. The heterogeneity of the different parts of the Book of Job is undoubtedly the main difficulty to be overcome in the attempt to read the book as a coherent whole. [End Page 413] Although for a long time now scholars have tried to resolve this problem from either a diachronic or synchronic perspective, no unanimity on the matter has been achieved. Instead of trying to downplay the book's heterogeneity, W.'s article adopts a dialogical approach that seeks to highlight the diversity of voices within the book that never cease to resound together in the polyphonic literary work that is the Book of Job. [Adapted from published abstract—C.T.B.] 1292. [Job 3] William C. Pohl IV, "Arresting God's Attention: The Rhetorical Intent and Strategies of Job 3," BBR 28 (2018) 1-19. Interpreters have struggled to make sense...