Job the Silent : A Study in Historical Counterpoint
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0195058968
ISBN-13
9780195058963
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 27th, 1991
Print length
304 Pages
Weight
678 grams
Dimensions
24.30 x 16.20 x 2.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literary theoryBible readings, selections & meditations
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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".
This remarkable work offers a brilliantly original reading of the book of Job, one of the great classics of biblical literature, and in the process develops a new formula for understanding how biblical texts evolve in the process of transmission.Zuckerman presents the thesis that the book of Job was intended as a parody the stereotypical righteous sufferer. In his most extended analogy, Zuckerman compares the book of Job and its fate to that of a famous Yiddish short story, `Bontshe Shvayg'', another covert parody whose protagonist has come to be revered as a paradigm of innocent Jewish suffering. The history of this story is used to show how a literary text becomes separated from the intention of its author, and comes to have a quite different meaning for a specific community of readers.
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