Job the Silent A Study in Historical Counterpoint
| Author/creator | Zuckerman, Bruce Author |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Oxford University Press, Incorporated |
| Description | 304 p. 09.100 x 06.000 in. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
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| Summary | Annotation 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 parodyprotesting 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. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9780195121278 |
| ISBN | 0195121279 (Trade Paper) On Demand |
| Standard identifier# | 9780195121278 |
| Stock number | 00020142 |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |