Note 78 — Chapter VII · THE TRADITIONAL BASIS AND THE PURPOSE OF JOB.
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In Korán, xxxviii. 16, 29, 44, David, Solomon, and Job are all called, one after another, awwāb, i.e. not ‘penitent,’ but ‘ever turning to God.’ Hitzig remarks that Iyyób (Arabic Ayyàb) will thus be equivalent to the mythic prophet Saleh (= ‘pious’) in the Korán (Das Buch Hiob, Einl., S. x.), on whom see Palmer, Desert of the Exodus, p. 50, where he is identified with Moses. This is bold, and, in any case, must not such a name be comparatively modern?