Midrash Iyyob (Hebrew: מדרש איוב) or Midrash to Job is an aggadic midrash that is no longer extant.
Contents Explicit reference to the source Midrash Iyyob are found in relation to Job 1:14,in the Yalḳuṭ Makiri to Isaiah 61:11 to Job 1:6,in a manuscript commentary of Rashi to Job to Job 1:1 and 4:12,In a manuscript machzor commentary; both these commentaries were in the possession of Abraham Epstein, in Vienna; compare Ha-Ḥoḳer, i. 325 to Job 7:9,In the Recanati to Genesis 3:23 to Job 2:1 [?],In the Recanati—according to the statement in "Rab Pe'alim," p. 34 and to Job 4:10.In Yalkut Shimoni 2:897 In addition, the quotes found in the Yalkut Makiri to Psalms 61:7 and 146:4 with the source-reference "Midrash" and referring to Job 3:2 and 38:1 may be taken from Midrash Iyyob, as may be many passages in the Job commentaries of Samuel b. Nissim MasnuthMa'yan Gannim, Berlin, 1889 and Isaac b. Solomon.Constantinople, 1545 The extracts and quotations from Midrash Iyyob have been collected by Wertheimer.Leḳeṭ Midrashim, Jerusalem, 1903; compare also Zunz, G. V. p. 270; Brüll's Jahrb. 5-6 99
Origin cite an opinion attributing Midrash Iyyov to the amora Hoshaiah Rabbah (3rd century), although this dating is uncertain.
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