Midrash Iyyob Explained

Midrash Iyyob (Hebrew: מדרש איוב) or Midrash to Job is an aggadic midrash that is no longer extant.

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Explicit reference to the source Midrash Iyyob are found in relation to Job 1:14,^[1] to Job 1:6,^[2] to Job 1:1 and 4:12,^[3] to Job 7:9,^[4] to Job 2:1 [?],^[5] and to Job 4:10.^[6] In addition, the quotes found in the Yalkut Makiri to Psalms 61:7 and 146:4 with the source-reference "Midrash" and referring to Job 3:2 and 38:1 may be taken from Midrash Iyyob, as may be many passages in the Job commentaries of Samuel b. Nissim Masnuth^[7] and Isaac b. Solomon.^[8] The extracts and quotations from Midrash Iyyob have been collected by Wertheimer.^[9]

Origin

cite an opinion attributing Midrash Iyyov to the amora Hoshaiah Rabbah (3rd century), although this dating is uncertain.

Notes and References

1. in the Yalḳuṭ Makiri to Isaiah 61:11
2. in a manuscript commentary of Rashi to Job
3. In an manuscript machzor commentary; both these commentaries were in the possession of Abraham Epstein, in Vienna; compare Ha-Ḥoḳer, i. 325
4. In the Recanati to Genesis 3:23
5. In the Recanati—according to the statement in "Rab Pe'alim," p. 34
6. In Yalkut Shimoni 2:897
7. Ma'yan Gannim, Berlin, 1889
8. Constantinople, 1545
9. Leḳeṭ Midrashim, Jerusalem, 1903; compare also Zunz, G. V. p. 270; Brüll's Jahrb. 5-6 99