01462nam a2200289 a 4500 20260119070410.0 2021-11-29 16:18:22 0195058968 1 0 eng 223.106 B886-Z94 Zuckerman, Bruce Author Job the silent A study in historical counterpoint Bruce Zuckerman New York, U.S.A Oxford University 1991 294tr. Hardcover 24cm 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. Religion -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament 211001 TKH 5937 5937 0 0 0 0 TVCD TVCD 2026-01-20 0.00 0 TVCD-5937 0.00 BK