Job the Silent: A Study in Historical Counterpoint

Zuckerman, Bruce

ISBN 10: 0195121279 / ISBN 13: 9780195121278

Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998

About this Item

Clean, unread copy in New condition. No marking or writing in the book. Covers are clean and show no wear. Binding is firm.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Job the Silent: A Study in Historical Counterpoint
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195121279
• ISBN 13: 9780195121278
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 1.8W x 15.24H x 22.86D centimeters 1.8 centimeters width by 15.24 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
• Weight: 476 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Old Testament

About this title

Synopsis

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.