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Hananel Mack

Hananel Mack is a professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University. He received his Ph.D. at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His specialty is Midrash and Aggadah literature and its relationship with Bible, history and Hebrew literature.

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Wife of Job: Apocrypha

While the Wife of Job has a limited role in the biblical narrative, the apocryphal Divrei Lyov transforms her into a central character of the plot. Unique to the apocryphal account, Job is cited as having two wives, Utzit and Dinah, whereas the midrashic account has Job marrying only one woman.