Midrash Iyyob (
Hebrew
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: מדרש איוב) or Midrash to Job is an
aggadic midrash that is no longer extant.
Contents
Explicit reference to the source Midrash Iyyob are found in relation to Job 1:14, to Job 1:6, to Job 1:1 and 4:12, to Job 7:9, to Job 2:1
and to Job 4:10. In addition, the quotes found in the Yalkut Makiri to
Psalms
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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 and
Isaac b. Solomon. The extracts and quotations from Midrash Iyyob have been collected by Wertheimer.
[''Leḳeṭ Midrashim,'' Jerusalem, 1903; compare also ]Zunz Zunz ( he, צוּנְץ, yi, צונץ) is a Yiddish surname:
* (1874–1939), Belgian pharmacologist
* Sir Gerhard Jack Zunz (1923–2018), British civil engineer
* Leopold Zunz (Yom Tov Lipmann Tzuntz) (1794–1886), German Reform rabbi an ...
, ''G. V.'' p. 270; Brüll's ''Jahrb.'' 5-6 99
Origin
cite an opinion attributing ''Midrash Iyyov'' to the
amora Hoshaiah Rabbah
Hoshaiah Rabbah or Hoshayya Rabbah (also "Roba", "Berabbi", Hebrew: אושעיא בריבי) was a '' Amora'' of the Land of Israel from the first amoraic generation (about 200 CE), compiler of Baraitot explaining the Mishnah-Tosefta.
Biograph ...
(3rd century), although this dating is uncertain.
References
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*{{Citation , surname1=Strack , given1=H.L. , surname2=Stemberger , given2=G., title=Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash , publisher=T&T Clark, place=
Edinburgh
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, year=1991 , isbn = 978-0-8006-2524-5
Aggadic Midrashim