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Book of Job, a Rare card
The Book of Job, or simply Job, is a book found in the Ketuvim section of the Hebrew Bible and the first of the Poetic Books in the Old Testament of the Christian Bible.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 77
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 177
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 360,000
Ranked #1,110 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Book of Job quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Book of Job card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It addresses the problem of evil, providing a theodicy through the ______ of the eponymous protagonist.
Answer
experiences. It addresses the problem of evil, providing a theodicy through the experiences of the eponymous protagonist. From the Book of Job article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Tianjin. Tianjin 90 · John Cage 86 · A-ha 81 · Book of Job 77 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The language of the Book of Job, combining post-Babylonian Hebrew and Aramaic influences, indicates it was composed during the Persian period, with the poet using Hebrew in a learned, literary manner.
- It addresses the problem of evil, providing a theodicy through the experiences of the eponymous protagonist.
- It is structured with a prose prologue and epilogue framing poetic dialogues and monologues, including three cycles of debates between Job and his friends, Job's lamentations, the Poem to Wisdom, Elihu's speeches, and God's two speeches from a whirlwind.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Book of Job article was read about 360,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 77 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Book of Job
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Book of Job (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
