Job the silent
a study in historical counterpoint
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Author
Publication
1991 - Oxford University Press, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
73,500 words, Guess
Page Count
294 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL2190879M
- ISBN-100195058968
- OCLC Control Number19630247
- OCLC Control Numberjobsilentstudyin0000zuck
- Library of Congress Control Number89009340
and 2 more
- LibraryThing1168899
- Goodreads1916704
Classifications
- DDC223/.106
- LCCBS1415.2 .Z83 1990
Description
Offering an original reading of the book of Job, one of the great literary classics of biblical literature, this book develops a new analogical method for understanding how biblical texts evolve in the process of transmission. Bruce Zuckerman argues that the book of Job was intended as a parody protesting the stereotype of the traditional righteous sufferer as patient and silent. He compares the book of Job and its fate to that of a famous Yiddish short story, "Bontsye Shvayg," another covert parody whose protagonist has come to be revered as a paradigm of innocent Jewish suffering. Zuckerman uses the story to prove how a literary text becomes separated from the intention of its author, and takes on quite a different meaning for a specific community of readers. - Back cover.
Description
Originally published in 1991, a study of the book of Job and the understanding of how biblical texts evolve in the process of transmission. Zuckerman presents a thesis that the book of Job was intended as a parody and compares it to the Yiddish story "Bontshe Shvayg".
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