Land of Uz

Younger has suggested that a possible extrabiblical attestation of Uz might occur in a copy of Esarhaddon's Succession Treaty discovered at Tell Tayinat, which Younger (2023) reconstructs as referring to "the city and land of ˹Usî" in modern-day Syria.

[4] Edom was roughly in the area of modern-day southwestern Jordan and southern Israel.

Job has often been identified as the Jobab mentioned in Genesis 36:33, king of Edom and great-grandson of Esau.

[6] Some scholars hold that Uz is a fictional place, invented to serve as a setting for the story of Job, rather than a physical land.

A similar conjecture is that if Uz was a physical place, it may have been chosen as the setting for the story due to the meaning of its name.