Answer to Job

Answer to Job (Antwort auf Hiob) is a 1952 book by Carl Gustav Jung addressing the moral, mythological and psychological implications of the Book of Job. It was first published as "Antwort auf Hiob", Zürich, 1952 and translated into English in 1954, in London.

Jung considers the Book of Job a landmark development in the "divine drama", for the first time contemplating criticism of God (Gotteskritik, theodicy).

Editions

 * Rascher (1953, 1961, 1967)
 * Walter Verlag (1985) ISBN 3530407682
 * Dtv (1990) ISBN 3423351217, (2001) ISBN 3423351713


 * English translation
 * trans. R F C Hull, in Psychology and Religion, v.11, Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Princeton University Press (1973) ISBN 0691017859
 * Online excerpt of "Answer to Job"

Literature

 * Paul Bishop, Jung's Answer to Job: A Commentary, Brunner-Routledge (2002) ISBN 1583912401 review