Biblical Hebrew Forum

[yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>]

peter asked:
>Are you, or is anyone else, seriously propounding the view that the 
>Hebrew text of Job was a translation and that the Aramaic found at 
>Qumran is (something like) the original?

shalom peter,
i think the following is a consensus.
qumran aramaic Job is a translation.
hebrew Job was original, but it is in a hebrew dialect that is sui generis.

there are those who suspect that Job is a translation from something else,
but no one has proposed that  Qumran aramaic Job is original.

braxot
randall buth