Job the silent : a study in historical counterpoint /
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 wa...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
1991.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | "First published in 1991 by Oxford University Press. ... First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1998"--Title page verso |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 294 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-282) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 0585357412 9780585357416 1280533331 9781280533334 |