Will Kynes introduces the book of Job by asking ‘What is the book of Job, and how does that affect how you read it?’ This question entails investigation into the book’s genre, for genre recognition provides a horizon of expectations which shape the reader’s perspective. Job has traditionally been read as Wisdom Literature, based on perceived similarities with Proverbs and Ecclesiastes in form, theme, and Sitz im Leben. However, this genre grouping leads to Job’s unwarranted separation from the rest of the canon, theological abstraction, and hermeneutical limitations. Job is an open and ambiguous text which might be placed in multiple genre groupings. Kynes surveys several of these (sifre emet, lament, exemplary sufferer texts, poetry, drama, controversy dialogue, history, epic, didactic narrative, Torah, prophecy, lawsuit, and apocalyptic), as well as some meta-generic readings (parody, citation, and polyphony). Given this diversity, and recognising that all readings are culturally contingent and only partially appropriate, he advocates a multiperspectival approach which draws insights from many directions.