The Testament of Job is a book written in the 1st century BCE or the 1st century CE, elaborating upon the Book of Job with many parallels to Christian belief. The earliest surviving manuscript is Coptic, of the 5th century; other early surviving manuscripts are in Greek and Old Slavonic. At the end of the 5th century, the Testament of Job was relegated to the apocrypha by Pope Gelasius, in his decree concerning canonical and noncanonical books and subsequently ignored by Christian writers, until it was published in 1833 by Angelo Mai (Scriptorum Veterum Nova Collectio vol. vii pp. 180-191). Mai's manuscript had a double title: "Testament of Job the Blameless, the Conqueror in Many Contests, the Sainted" (which seems to be the older title) and "The Book of Job Called Jobab, and His Life, and the Transcript of His Testament."

A bilingual Greek and English edition, edited by Robert A. Kraft, was issued in New York by the Society of Biblical Literature in 1974 with ISBN 088414044X.

External link

• Jewish Encyclopedia: (http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=332&letter=J) Testament of Job
• Testament of Job (http://wesley.nnu.edu/noncanon/ot/pseudo/test-job.htm): e-text