While the themes found in Job are common across the ancient world, the language is not. Truthfully, the theme found in the two works is common enough that “Ludlul-Bel-Nimeqi” could be compared almost as closely to Ecclesiastes or Lamentations as Job. Job is a drama while “Ludlul-Bel-Nimeqi” is a monologue. As it is, Job and “Ludlul-Bel-Nimeqi” have very different endings to the stories of their protagonists and are written in different styles. People have been questioning why suffering occurs for almost as long as humanity has existed.

The book deals with similar themes as the Babylonian work “Ludlul-Bel-Nimeqi” and is sometimes considered to have been based on the Babylonian work, but similar themes are not enough to state that one work is a derivative of the other. The Book of Job is estimated to have been written in the time of the Patriarchs, between 19 B.C. God wins the wager, restores what Job lost and further blesses him. God accepts the bet, and Job suffers every manner of tragedy but still clings to his faith. God declares that Job will not give up his faith and curse God despite terrible things befalling him. In the book, an angel in God’s court, in some translations it is Satan, challenges God that Job is pious because he has a good, comfortable life. Unlike the rest of the Bible, Job is written not as prose or poetry but as a drama. The Book of Job is one of the lesser read books of the Bible, despite the fact that it is referenced repeatedly throughout Scripture. The oldest book in the Bible is smack in the middle of the Old Testament. All of these predictions, however, would be incorrect. If that was not accurate, then they would probably suggest Exodus or maybe theorize that Psalms or Proverbs were the first to go from an oral tradition to a written one. Most Christians would likely predict that Genesis was the oldest book in the Bible given that it details the creation of the world. The oldest book in the Bible is, unsurprisingly, found in the Old Testament. Clearly, the Bible is not arranged in chronological order, but what would the Bible look like if it was? What would be at the end of the Good Book? In that chronological Bible, what would come first? What is the oldest book in the Bible? What is the Oldest Book in the Bible? Older books are sandwiched between works that were written centuries later, and younger pieces may come before older books.

The order in which those books were placed in the Bible, however, was not always based on their age. Between these dates, the dozens of books of the Bible were written, edited and compiled.

The New Testament was completed roughly a century after Christ’s death. The Old Testament was written hundreds, if not thousands, of years before Christ was ever born. The books of the Bible were written over a period of thousands of years.

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