This article examines the Testament of Job as a literary work within the genre of ancient Jewish novel. It explores the function of clothing changes for the two central characters of Satan and Sitis as providing both entertaining and critical narrative cues for character perception and development. This study is organized into two main sections. The first part examines the figure of Satan and his respective forms and disguises, with appropriate analogues to Apuleius's Metamorphoses. The second part examines Sitis's clothing and its function within the narrative, followed by a brief comparison to Joseph and Aseneth and Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe. This article contends that clothing is an important literary motif for the Testament of Job much like the popular ancient stories of Joseph and Aseneth, Chaereas and Callirhoe, and Metamorphoses. The contention is that a character's exterior clothing often indicates his/her inward character, or depicts a character's transformation within the narrative. In this sense, Sitis's clothing signals both her fall and eventual vindication, and Satan's disguises signal his status as the evil trickster. A character's change of clothing, as one would imagine in a performance or play, offers critical narrative cues to the reader.

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撒但和西提斯：换衣服在工作中的意义

本文考察了古代犹太小说流派中作为文学作品的约伯记。它探讨了撒旦和西提斯这两个主要角色的服装更换功能，为角色的感知和发展提供了娱乐性和批判性的叙事线索。这项研究分为两个主要部分。第一部分以适当的类似Apuleius的“变形记”的方式，研究了撒旦的形象及其各自的形式和伪装。第二部分在叙述中考察了Sitis的衣服及其功能，然后与Joseph和Aseneth以及Chariton的Chaereas和Callirhoe进行了简要比较。本文认为，服装是约伯书中重要的文学主题，就像约瑟夫和亚斯纳斯，撒雷亚斯和卡里霍的通俗古代故事一样，和变形。争论是角色的外衣经常表明他/她的内向角色，或描绘角色在叙事中的转变。从这个意义上说，Sitis的衣服既标志着她的堕落，也标志着他最终的辩护，而Satan的伪装则标志着他作为邪恶骗子的身份。正如人们在表演或戏剧中所想象的那样，角色的服装更换为读者提供了重要的叙事线索。