PS: I do recommend Mr D’Hondt, should you ever need his sort of services in this part of the world.
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PS: I do recommend Mr D’Hondt, should you ever need his sort of services in this part of the world.
The current critical consensus is that the beginning/ ending are the oldest parts of the book, and that Job was originally an edifying tale about how Job is tempted to despair and is rewarded (there is a reference in, I think, Ezekiel which would support this), and the poems are deconstructing it. I’m not sure if the God in Job is exactly unloving – look at the enthusiasm about Behemoth and Leviathan – but it’s certainly not a human kind of love. More like an author’s attitude to her characters…
I must admit that I like Esther, Tobit, and Judith, though. Especially Judith.