The Book of Job

The book of Job is paradoxical regarding its historicity as well as its meaning. Although Job is clearly presented as a real historical person (he lived from 1710 to 1500 near Bozra in Idumea) rabbis and bishops preferred to see it as a moral tale. Despite the main question all over the book being: why evil prevails? the answer would be: please look at the hippopotamus and the crocodile (Job 40:1-42:6) which is poetic but quite absurd. However as Maimonides had already understood a long time ago the Book of Job includes profound ideas and great mysteries and reveals the most important truths. Indeed Job received a deep and detailed answer in order to know when and how the evil angel Leviathan a.k.a. Satan would be defeated by Behemoth the first creature of God (Job 40:19). In a surprising manner archaeology has shown that all the geographical and historical details in the Book of Job are accurate and reliable.