[Avodah] iyov

[Micha Berger]

On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 12:25:21AM +0300, Eli Turkel wrote:
: If you go from the earliest time in the days of Yaakov to the return from
: Bavel
: it is much longer than 1000 years (I havent worked it out exactly). Hard to
: believe that some Jew lived through all of that without any hint in Tanach.

Isn't the whole gemara about hints in Tanakh?

And besides, how many people in a nation have historical impact? Why would
someone, no matter how long they lived, necessarily show up explicitly in
text describing the personal lives of kings and neviim and national-level
events?

: BTW if he did live some 1200 years when did the story of iyov occur in his
: lifetime?

Toward the beginning, if RLbL assumes the overlap between Iyov's life
and MRAH's supports the idea that Moshe wrote the book. It would imply
that the events described didn't require miraculous foreknowledge to be
recorded in Moshe's day.

-Micha

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