JOB is one of the most Scientific books of the Bible

[LittleNipper]

I'm not sure you understand what scientific means.

The book is certainly most likely the oldest book

Is it certainly, or most likely? They don't mean the same thing. Job was assumed to have been set down in the 6th Century BCE, making it much more recent than a lot of Torah.

I was always told that Job was the oldest book in the Bible.

When reading it, notice no mention of Israel, the Patriarchs, and it talks about odd animals like the Leviathan.

Also, the cities and towns are unknown today.

"The anonymous author was almost certainly an Israelite, although he has set his story outside Israel, in southern Edom or northern Arabia, and makes allusion to places as far apart as Mesopotamia and Egypt. The language of Job stands out for its conservative spelling and for its exceptionally large number of words and forms not found elsewhere in the Bible. Many later scholars down to the 20th century looked for an Aramaic, Arabic or Edomite original, but a close analysis suggests that the foreign words and foreign-looking forms are literary affectations designed to lend authenticity to the book's distant setting and give it a foreign flavor"

- Source, Wikipedia.

The fact that it (the book of JOB) dates to before Abraham would make this individual not an Israelite.

That's not the accepted origin of Job. It is written to appear as if it came from an older and foreign source. In much the same way that Shakespeare sets his plays in foreign and exotic, even ancient, settings. But, the lack of an original non-Hebrew version and the fact that many of the foreign sounding words in Job don't correspond to known ancient languages suggests that the author was an Israelite using affectation as part of his narrative.

Accepted by whom? Please consider the following: An Introduction to the Book of Job | Bible.org

 

[Fort Fun Indiana]

You don't need to read between the lines. One only needs to read the text to see that it is far removed from any other religious text of the period.

Conman bait and switch. We weren't talking about it being far removed from anything. Please go back and re read and put on your big boy pants and address the points.

And there is much better literature from the same period, both philosophical and otherwise. While ignorant, superstitious fools were drooling over the childish fairy tale that is the bible, others were reading the works of plato and aristotle, and fleshing out hellenistic thought. All full of amazing, watershed ideas for the human race that your favored bronze age nonsense all but stomped out for 1500 years. Then we rediscovered these ideas and voila...the enlightenment. We literally had to improve the human condition IN SPITE of your favored bronze age horseshit. And the slow death of your silly bronze age mysticism continues to this day.

 

[LittleNipper]

You don't need to read between the lines. One only needs to read the text to see that it is far removed from any other religious text of the period.

Conman bait and switch. We weren't talking about it being far removed from anything. Please go back and re read and put on your big boy pants and address the points.

And there is much better literature from the same period, both philosophical and otherwise. While ignorant, superstitious fools were drooling over the childish fairy tale that is the bible, others were reading the works of plato and aristotle, and fleshing out hellenistic thought. All full of amazing, watershed ideas for the human race that your favored bronze age nonsense all but stomped out for 1500 years. Then we rediscovered these ideas and voila...the enlightenment. We literally had to improve the human condition IN SPITE of your favored bronze age horseshit. And the slow death of your silly bronze age mysticism continues to this day.

Aristotle's philosophy stresses biology, instead of mathematics like Plato. He believed the world was made up of individuals (substances) occurring in fixed natural kinds (species). Each individual has built-in patterns of development, which help it grow toward becoming a fully developed individual of its kind.

Plato believed that it is only philosophers who should rule over the lands. Plato believed that only people who have been proven time and time again to make judgments that are in the best interests of society without clouding their judgment with personal interests should be fit to rule.

This all sounds quite Biblical to an extent. Kinds are mentioned in Genesis AND King Saul was demonstrated over and over that all he cared about HIS OWN SELF INTERESTS...