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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.
Introduction -- 1. The Patience Problem -- 2. The Akedah Model -- 3. The Case Against a Linear Reading -- 4. Super-Job -- 5. Anti-Job -- 6. Super-Reality -- 7. The Sincerely Wrong Approach -- 8. Barriers to Interpretation and the Bontsye Model -- 9. The Art of Parody: The Dialogue/Appeal -- 10. The Art of Parody: The Legal Metaphor -- 11. The Art of Parody: The Death Theme -- 12. Supplemental Themes -- 13. Intervening Themes -- 14. Conclusion: The Joban Fugue.
"First published in 1991 by Oxford University Press. ... First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1998"--Title page verso
Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-282) and indexes.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1998