2011, B. W. Breed, C. D. Hankins, “Job”, in edited by M. D. Coogan, The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible, volume 1, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 436:
As a result, many scholars conclude that the prose and poetry sections emerge from different authors who wrote at different times. At present, the consensus among modern critical scholarship holds that the Joban poet took a preexisting, traditional tale about a pious individual named Job and made it the prose framework for a new poetic dialogue.
2012, Jonathan A. Cook, Inscrutable Malice, Cornell University Press, →ISBN, page 9:
In his epic whaling novel, Melville dramatizes many of the key biblical components of Joban theodicy and apocalyptic eschatology and uses them as structural templates for both tragic and comic patterns of action and exposition.
2018, Victoria Brownlee, Biblical Readings and Literary Writings in Early Modern England, 1558-1625[1], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 97:
Given that both plays engage with a Joban model of suffering, the dissonance of King Lear—which as subsequent discussion suggests is not so out of line with the biblical text—does not simply challenge the conclusory righting of wrongs in Leir. It quarrels with an exegetical tradition of aligning Job's apparently patient suffering with regeneration, which the source play recapitulates.
