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  title info:
    title: Job the silent
    sub title: a study in historical counterpoint
  name:
    name part: Zuckerman, Bruce.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: Criticism, interpretation, etc.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 1991
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (viii, 294 pages)
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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.
  note: Bruce Zuckerman.
  note: "First published in 1991 by Oxford University Press. ... First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 1998"--Title page verso
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-282) and indexes.
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
      part name: Job
    topic: Criticism, interpretation, etc
  subject:
    name:
      name part: (Biblical figure)
      name part: Job
  subject:
    name:
      name part: (Biblical figure)
      name part: Job
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Bible
      part name: Job
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
    topic: Biblical Studies
    topic: Old Testament
  subject:
    topic: RELIGION
    topic: Biblical Studies
    topic: Wisdom Literature
  classification: BS1415.2 .Z83 1991eb
  classification: 223/.106
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Job the silent
    name:
      name part: Zuckerman, Bruce.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998
    identifier: (DLC) 89009340
    identifier: (OCoLC)19630247
  identifier: 0585357412
  identifier: 9780585357416
  identifier: 1280533331
  identifier: 9781280533334
  identifier: 0195121279
  identifier: 0195058968
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 010315
    record change date: 20260318171448.9
    record identifier: in00005700981
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng