Moralia in Job

The Moralia in Job is Pope Gregory the Great's extensive sixth century commentary on the Book of Job, one of the most influential works of biblical interpretation and moral theology in the medieval Latin Christian tradition, read for centuries as a foundational guide to allegorical and moral scriptural interpretation. As a primary patristic source it is the strongest possible evidence for how one of the most consequential early medieval popes himself interpreted Job and articulated Christian moral theology from it, cited here as content rather than through one specific modern edition. Its limit is that it reflects the specific allegorical interpretive method of its own late antique and early medieval context, which differs considerably from modern historical critical approaches to the same biblical text, so a modern critical reading of Job needs a separate source.