The Relationship Between Job and Abraham

There are many intertextual connections between job and abraham. Some are thematic, some are actual verbal connections. Like the phrase dust and ashes only occurs on the lips of abraham and job in the bible. And they're also both said to fear god - technically, that the de val pointing of the hebrew actually says they are god fearers. But even if you didn't have all these interconnections, you'd have to ask tha question,. You know, abraham is silent in the face of a terrible situation of which a stress and result in his own suffering. And then job goes through terrible suffering. So it's a different prospective he now has on his in