This is a study that many lecturers will want to include in their recommended texts.
Brian R. Doak is Associate Professor of Biblical Studies and Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University, just outside Portland, OR. He is the author of four other books, including Heroic Bodies in Ancient Israel and Consider Leviathan: Narratives of Nature and the Self in Job, and the co-editor (with Carolina López-Ruiz) of The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic
Mediterranean.