The book of Job in form : a literary translation with commentary / / translated from the Hebrew, annotated and introduced by Jan P. Fokkelman.

• Superior document: Studia Semitica Neerlandica, v. 58
• Author: Fokkelman, J. P.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studia Semitica Neerlandica ; 58.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Hẹt boek Job in vorm.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1280772662; 9786613683434; 9004232346
• ISSN: 0081-6914
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: translated from the Hebrew, annotated and introduced by Jan P. Fokkelman.

The Book of Job in Form presents to the reader a platform for a personal and intensive encounter with a great work of art. Its bilingual centre offers the text in Hebrew and English, and shows the forty poems in their original form, in 412 strophes and 165 stanzas. The commentary points out how these proportions and the remarkable precision of the poet (who counted syllables on all text levels) affect the thematics of the book, so that the portrait of the hero can be redrawn; his stubbornly defended integrity meets vindication and his last words, generally misunderstood, require a positive understanding. The poetry and its slim framework in prose are a unified composition which deserves a synchronic approach.