Are Tolkien’s Dwarves Lurking in the Book of Job?

Are Tolkien’s Dwarves Lurking in the Book of Job?: Tolkien’s Influence on the Translation of Job I was reading Job 28:1-11 in the Jerusalem Bible, which uses the metaphor of mining for jewels to depict the search for wisdom, and I was struck by how much the passage reminded me of the dwarves in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. I learned that in …