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The Talmudic tractate Bava Batra ( 15a-b ) maintains that Job was written by Moses, although nowhere does it name its author.

Other opinions in the Talmud ascribe it to the period of before the First Temple, the time of the patriarch Jacob, or King Ahaserus.

The medieval exegete Abraham ibn Ezra believed that Job was translated from another language and it is therefore unclear " like all translated books " ( Ibn Ezra Job 2: 11 ).

It is set in the land of Edom, which has been retained as the background, and in the prologue and epilogue, the name of God is YHWH, a name that even the Edomites used.

Job is prominent in aggadic legends.

The later Greek Testament of Job figures among the apocrypha.