Research Guides: LING 249: Literature and Cognition (HC): Secondary Sources

On the Book of Job

Studies in the Book of Job
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The four essays in this volume present an overview of current issues in studies of the book of Job.
From Linguistics to Hermeneutics
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This book applies the insights of functional grammar and cognitive semantics to the study of Biblical Hebrew with a specific focus on Job 12-14.

The Book of Job in Aramaic

Targums were the first written Aramaic translations or paraphrases of the Old Testament. Targum 11Q10 covers The Book of Job 17:14–42:12 and represents one part of the manuscript fragments collectively known as the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The Aramaic text is available online at The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon Project. To find the Book of Job, choose the following path:

Search the CAL textual databases > Tagrum Studies Module > Browse a single targum > TgJob

Several English translations of Targum 11Q10 are also available:

The Dead Sea Scrolls Translated: The Qumran Texts in English
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Florentino García Martínez
New York: E.J. Brill, 1994
pp. 143–153
The Targum of Job
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Céline Mangan
In The Aramaic Bible, Vol. 15
Ed. by Kevin Cathcart, Michael Maher, M.S.C., and Martin McNamara, M.S.C.
Collegeville, Minnesota: The Liturgical Press, 1991
pp. 1-98
The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English
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Geza Vermes
New York: Penguin, 1997
pp.433–438
The Dead Sea Scrolls: A New Translation
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Michael O. Wise, Martin G. Abegg, Jr., & Edward M. Cook
New York: HarperCollins, 2005
pp. 577–588