1) Job is said to own 3,000 camels. It is pretty well established that camels were not domesticated too much before 1,000 BC. Job is also presented as being a sedentary individual, not a migratory shepherd as would be more appropriate to a Israelite of the patriarchal era.
2) Job-like poems were an entire genre in Sumer and Babylon. One of the earlier ones (Ludlul BĂȘl Nimeqi) was written around 1700 BC. Now according to traditional chronologies, this is the period of Egyptian captivity for the Israelites. Now how could the Sumerians be copying Israelite poetry when they were enslaved in Goshen and Pi-Ramesses.
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