Job the Silent: A Study in Historical Counterpoint
Zuckerman, Bruce
ISBN 10: 0195121279 ISBN 13: 9780195121278
Published by Oxford University Press, 1998
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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. 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.
About the Author: Bruce Zuckerman is at University of Southern California.
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Title: Job the Silent: A Study in Historical ...
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good