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{{Short description|Apocryphal book}} [[File:Jacob Jordaens - Abraham Grapheus as Job.JPG|200px|thumb|[[Jacob Jordaens]] - Abraham Grapheus as Job]] The '''''Testament of Job''''' (also referred to as ''Divrei Lyov'',<ref>{{cite web | url=https://jwa.org/encyclopedia/article/wife-of-job-apocrypha#:~:text=Unique%20to%20the%20apocryphal%20account,of%20people%27s%20contempt%20and%20pity | title=Wife of Job: Apocrypha }}</ref> literally meaning "''Words of Job''") is a book written in the 1st century BC or the 1st century AD. Some [[Midrash]]ic parallels in the work<ref>Itemized in Kaufmann Kohler (1897). [https://www.nli.org.il/en/articles/NNL_ALEPH990030147820205171/NLI The Testament of Job : an Essene Midrash on the Book of Job.] - reedited and translated with introductory and exegetical notes by K. Kohler.</ref> indicate that it was a production of the pre-Christian era, and belongs to the Jewish apocrypha.<ref>[http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=332&letter=J ''Jewish Encyclopedia''] Testament of Job Summary</ref> Christian scholars refer to such writings as belonging to "[[intertestamental literature]]". The text is not directly dependent on the canonical [[Book of Job]], and presents many differences from it.
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