ABSTRACT
The Book of Job, written somewhere between 1500–1000 BCE, is a pivotal drama concerning a transition in human consciousness. The Book of Job is, really, a heretical text strangely escaping censure and becoming part of the mainstream Old Testament. In the Book of Job there is a close relationship of Yahweh with Satan. The Book of Job was a mystical revelation that crashed through the evolving one-sided orthodoxy of Judaism, revealing another side to the Godhead that symbolises the supreme values of human consciousness. The Book of Job is a confession-revelation. The Book of Job therefore represents the ambivalence of the transition from one form of consciousness, nature religions and the Great Mother, to patriarchal consciousness. The Book of Job is therefore an anachronism, out of keeping with the general flow of Judaic history. Collectively it represents the repressed unconscious, the world of the Great Mother.
