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title: 'Is the Book of Job Fact or Fiction?'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Walter Lee Lingle'
date: 1897-11-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Apologetical Method'
- 'Hermeneutics'
- 'Biblical History'
scriptures:
- 'Job 1'
- 'Job 42'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/lingle-1897-is-the-book-of-job-fact-or-fiction
---

# Is the Book of Job Fact or Fiction?

Examines whether the Book of Job is literal history or literary fiction. Surveys tradition, arguments from realism, symbolism, prologue/epilogue issues, and positions of modern critics.

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