Job & Buddha
Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2024 11:56 am
In the Greek version of the Book of Job, Job is identified with Jobab [יובב], a name that first appears in Genesis 10:29. Josephus, commenting on this passage, places him in India but transliterates the name as Ἰόβηλος (Ióbelos).
Josephus AJ 1.147
Now Joctan, one of the sons of Heber, had these sons, Elmodad, Saleph, Asermoth, Eira, Edōram, Ouzal, Daēlēs, Ēbal, Abimaēl, Sáphas, Ophirēs, Euilēs, and Ióbel. These inhabited from Cophen, an Indian river, and in part of Seres adjoining to it.
Σῆρες (Seres) is the ancient Greek name for China.
The first part of Josephus AJ 1.147 matches Genesis 10:29 but he additionally writes "These inhabited from Cophen, an Indian river, and in part of Seres adjoining to it" which seems to omit the clause in Genesis 10:30 "their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east."
Josephus AJ 1.147
Now Joctan, one of the sons of Heber, had these sons, Elmodad, Saleph, Asermoth, Eira, Edōram, Ouzal, Daēlēs, Ēbal, Abimaēl, Sáphas, Ophirēs, Euilēs, and Ióbel. These inhabited from Cophen, an Indian river, and in part of Seres adjoining to it.
Ἰούκτᾳ δὲ τῶν Ἑβέρου παίδων ἦσαν υἱοὶ Ἐλμόδαδος Σάλεφος Ἀζερμώθης Εἰράης Ἐδώραμος Οὐζάλης Δαήλης Ἤβαλος Ἀβιμάηλος Σάφας Ὀφίρης Εὐίλης Ἰόβηλος. οὗτοι ἀπὸ Κωφῆνος ποταμοῦ τῆς Ἰνδικῆς καὶ τῆς πρὸς αὐτῇ Σηρίας τινὰ κατοικοῦσι.
Σῆρες (Seres) is the ancient Greek name for China.
The first part of Josephus AJ 1.147 matches Genesis 10:29 but he additionally writes "These inhabited from Cophen, an Indian river, and in part of Seres adjoining to it" which seems to omit the clause in Genesis 10:30 "their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east."