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Excerpt from The Book of Job: Translated From the Hebrew on the Basis of the Authorized Version; Explained in a Large Body of Notes, Critical and Exegetical, and Illustrated by Extracts From Various Works on Antiquities, Geography, Science, Etc., Also, by Eighty Woodcuts and a Map
IN the preliminary dissertations which precede my translation I have treated upon the following subjects - the Book of Job a True History - the Age in which he Lived - the Place where he Resided - the Author of the Book which bears his Name - Theology in his Days - and the Various Readings of the Hebrew Text.
Previously to handling the first four of these subjects, I had, in addition to my own Observations, carefully weighed all the arguments that have been advanced on both sides of these several questions respectively, paying particular attention to the first of them, as being the most important and the conclusions to which I have arrived are, that the Book of Job is certainly a true history, giving a faithful and specific account of various actual and, in some instances, remarkable facts, and of real persons that the age in which the patriarch lived was almost certainly during the period of the sojourn of the Israelites in Egypt - that is, about thirty-five centuries ago: that the land of Uz was, in all likelihood, identical with that of Edom in its original boundaries, and therefore the most probably exact place of Job's residence was somewhere on the eastern side of the range of Mount Seir, and so, facing the Great Arabian Desert and then, with respect to the authorship of the book which bears his name, whilst I have assumed its high antiquity as a necessary supposition, I have but vaguely hinted, what others have felt more certain about, that possibly Job himself may have been its compiler.
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