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Job the silent: a study in historical counterpoint

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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.

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Z. HANDIMAN

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223.106 ZUC j

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press., 1991

Collation

viii, 294p.; 23 cm.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

0-19-505896-8

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223.106

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JOB (OT) - EXEGESIS

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