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Aggadic midrash; no longer extant
Midrash Iyyob
(
Hebrew
:
???? ????
) or
Midrash to Job
is an
aggadic midrash
that is no longer extant.
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Explicit reference to the source Midrash Iyyob are found in relation to Job 1:14,
[1]
to Job 1:6,
[2]
to Job 1:1 and 4:12,
[3]
to Job 7:9,
[4]
to Job 2:1 [?],
[5]
and to Job 4:10.
[6]
In addition, the quotes found in the Yalkut Makiri to
Psalms
61:7 and 146:4 with the source-reference "Midrash" and referring to Job 3:2 and 38:1 may be taken from Midrash Iyyob, as may be many passages in the Job commentaries of
Samuel b. Nissim Masnuth
[7]
and
Isaac b. Solomon
.
[8]
The extracts and quotations from Midrash Iyyob have been collected by Wertheimer.
[9]
Origin
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Strack & Stemberger (1991)
cite an opinion attributing
Midrash Iyyov
to the
amora
Hoshaiah Rabbah
(3rd century), although this dating is uncertain.
References
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- ^
in the
Yal?u? Makiri
to
Isaiah
61:11
- ^
in a manuscript commentary of
Rashi
to Job
- ^
In an manuscript
machzor
commentary; both these commentaries were in the possession of
Abraham Epstein
, in Vienna; compare
Ha-?o?er,
i. 325
- ^
In the
Recanati
to Genesis 3:23
- ^
In the
Recanati
?according to the statement in "Rab Pe'alim," p. 34
- ^
In
Yalkut Shimoni
2:897
- ^
Ma'yan Gannim,
Berlin, 1889
- ^
Constantinople, 1545
- ^
Le?e? Midrashim,
Jerusalem, 1903; compare also
Zunz
,
G. V.
p. 270; Brull's
Jahrb.
5-6 99