“Conventional Bible chronology”?? Way back in 1910, the
Catholic Encyclopedia (“Job”), stated:
The author of the book is unknown, neither can the period in which it was written be exactly determined. . . . It is now universally and correctly held that the book is not earlier than the reign of Solomon [approximately 960-920 BC].
Protestant evangelical (“conservative”) scholar Gleason L. Archer, in his book,
A Survey of Old Testament Introduction (Chicago: Moody Press, 1964, gave his opinion:
Inasmuch as Job contains no references to historical events and reflects a non-Hebraic cultural background concerning which we possess little or no information, it is not easy to assign a probable date for the lifetime and career of Job. . . .