The one thing good people were never supposed to do was say a bad word about God. The Creator might let the innocent be killed in concentration camps or let robbers rip off the S&Ls or let the Chaldeans your camels or smite you with run- and you were supposed to sit ghill with legendary patience hing pious like, "The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away."

Not Job, according to this book, which claims instead that our man was, well, the first dissident who furthermore has ...