Job the Silent: A Study in Historical Counterpoint - Hardcover

Zuckerman, Bruce

 
9780195058963: Job the Silent: A Study in Historical Counterpoint
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0195058968 ISBN 13: 9780195058963
Publisher: OUP USA, 1991

Synopsis

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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From the Back Cover

One of the great literary classics of biblical literature, the book of Job is best know as a story which exemplifies the virtue of patience in the face of suffering. Indeed, the patience of Job is so well celebrated as to be a cliche. But here one encounters a problem; for throughout the greater art of the book that bears his name, Job is clearly one of the most impatient characters in the Bible.

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Publisher
OUP USA
Publication date
1991
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0195058968
ISBN 13 
9780195058963
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
304

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