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Part II — Joshua to Revelation (1898)
The Book of Job
Stanton reads Job as an allegory of endurance rather than history, gives Job's much-abused wife a fairer hearing than tradition has, and points out the book's quiet anomaly: Job's daughters, the fairest women in the land, inherit alongside their brothers.
Job as epic poem and allegoryJob's wife and her one lineThe daughters who inherited with their brothers