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Israelites, low religious position before the Exile, 6;
  their sympathy with husbandmen, 136, 214

Italian moralists, their use of 'Job,' viii.

Ives, Saint, Breton legend of, 140


Jamnia, Synod of, 233, 280

Jehovah, the name, 71, 72 n.; consistency of the speeches of, in 'Job,' 48, 94 Jeremiah, parallels to 'Job' in, 86 Jerome, Saint, on metrical character of 'Job,' 12 n.; on Epicureanism in Koheleth, 262, 281 Jewish nation, like Job, a byword, 32 Job, the Book of— (a) Proposed title for, 12; divisions of, 12 sq.; perhaps a translation, 96 sq.; probable stages of the growth of, 66 sqq.; date of, 67 sqq., 88, 157; place of composition, 75; effect of removing the interpolations in, 70; Aramaic colouring of, 15 n., 92; whether historical, 60 sq., 183, 290; whether autobiographical, 63; whether a drama, 107; polemical aim of, 65; religious teaching of, 102 sqq.; feeling for nature in, 51; humour in, 13 sq., 49, 109, 290; influence of, on other writers, viii. 83 sq. (b) Author, the greatest master of Hebrew Wisdom, 11; circumstances of his age reflected in xvii. 6-9, 32; a traveller, 75, 97; looks beyond Israel, 65; place of writing, 75 (c) Hero, his name, 62; title given him by the Syrians, 65; his nationality, 13, 59, 117, 170; whether historical, 60 sqq., 103; great age ascribed to him, 71; his grave, 60; dual aspect of, 32; a type, 17, 21, 22, 28, 31, 32, 58, 65 (d) Text. (i.) Passages explained or emended: (vi. 25), 288; (xi. 6), 26; (xiii. 15), 28; (xv. 7), 167; (xvi. 2), 31; (xix. 25-27), 33 sqq., 288 sq.; (xxxiii. 13), 44; (xxxviii. 41), 52 n.; (xxxix. 10), 53 n. (ii.), Passages misplaced, list of, 114; also 38, 39 n., 40 n., 41, 50, 68, 94, 115 (iii.) Passages interpolated, 55 sq., 68 sq., 94, &c. Joel ii. 17 explained, 32 Joseph, the tax farmer, 182, 191, 213 Josephus, quoted, 190 Joshua ben Hananyah, Rabbi, 230 Kalisch, Dr., on Eccles. iii. 12, 210 n.; his Path and Goal, 265 Kant, on Job's friends, 37 Kenotic view of Christ's person, 7, 287 Khîda, a riddle, 125 Kings, First Book of, (iv. 32) 132, (xix. 12) 19 Kleinert, on Job (vi. 25), 288; on the style of Elihu, 293 Klostermann, translation of Eccles. vii., 21, 219 Koheleth, the name, 207, 231; his personality partly fused with Solomon, 208; his originality, 205, 268 sq. See also Ecclesiastes Koheleth, the Book of, see Ecclesiastes Koran, quoted, &c., 31, 62 n., 63, 79 n.

Krochmal, N., on Epilogue to Koheleth, 232 sq.

K'sil, = Orion, 77

Kuenen, on the Levitical Law, 3


Lagarde, on the use of 'Eloah,' 72 n.

Lamentations, parallels to 'Job' in, 86

Landed property, accumulation of, 146

Law, the Levitical, authorship of, 3 sqq.; not enforced in pre-Exile period, 6; identification of, with personified wisdom, 162, 192; Koheleth's attitude to, 218 Lee, Prof. S., on 'Job,' 97, 294 Lemuel, 154, 170 sq.

Letteris, Max, 150

Leviathan, 56

Love for one's enemies, 147

Lowth, Bp., 16, 61, 107, 186, 237

Lucretius, quoted, 201, 205;
  compared with Koheleth, 263

Luther, on Job, 61;
  on Sirach, 197;
  on Koheleth, 205