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Job the Silent

A Study in Historical Counterpoint

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Paperback, 304 blz. | Engels
| e druk, 1998
ISBN13: 9780195121278
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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.

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ISBN13:9780195121278
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Paperback
Aantal pagina's:304

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