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Job the silent
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- Book 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.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780195121278
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, (22 October 1998)
- Number of Pages
- 304
- Weight
- 467 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 155 x 23.1 mm
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