Speaking of the book of Job, G.K. discusses how remarkable it is that the religion of the Jews didn’t really mix well with anything else. (Certain branches of Kabbalah being the only thing I can think of.)
But this mighty nonotheistic poem remained unremarked by the whole world of antiquity, which was thronged with polytheistic poetry. It is a sign of the way in which the Jews stood apart and kept their tradition unshaken and unshared, that they should have kept a thing lie the Book of Job out of the whle intellectual world of antiquity. It is as if the Egyptians had modestl concealed the Great Pyramid.
-G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man, p.109