Does it make a difference to the panelists -- the theologians and academics in this video -- whether or not Job is a literary work or historical work?  If it's a literary work does that means it is less important as scripture?

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Find and analyze one of the many metaphors which fill out the speeches in The Book of Job.  Ask yourself:  What is being compared to what in this metaphor? Then explain the significance of this comparison, how the comparison is appropriate and fitting if you think it is so, or alternatively how you think the comparison is flawed in some way.