Saturday, 14 October 2017

Was Job still alive during the time of Moses?




There was a man in the land of Uz named Job. That man was blameless and upright; he feared God and shunned evil. (Job 1:1)


Talmudic commentary

Rava says: Job lived at the time of the spieswhom Moses sent to scout the land of Canaan. This is proven by the fact that it is written here: “There was a man in the land of Utz, whose name was Job” (Job 1:1), and it is written there in the account of the spies: “Whether there are trees [eitz] in it” (Numbers 13:20). The Gemara asks: Is it comparable? Here the word that is used is Utz, whereas there the word is eitz. The Gemara answers: This is what Moses said to Israel, i.e., to the spies: Is that man named Job still alive, he whose years are as long as the years of a tree and who protects his generation like a tree? This is why the allusion to him here is through the word eitz, rather than Utz. (Talmud Bava Batra 15a:14)

Notice from the rabbinic commentary “Moses said to Israel, i.e., to the spies: Is that man named Job still alive”. There’s more,



Interesting not only was job alive during the time of Moses he, Moses also wrote the word of Job. wonder how christian would swallow this rabbinic commentary.

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