01543nam a2200301 a 450000500170000000800200001702000150003704000060005204100100005808200120006808200130008010000210009310000110011424500190012524500390014424500200018326000200020326000220022326000090024530000110025430000140026530000090027952008040028865000500109295700150114299900150115795200690117220260119070410.02021-11-29 16:18:22  a0195058968  a1  a0 eng  a223.106  bB886-Z94  aZuckerman, Bruce  eAuthor  aJob the silent  bA study in historical counterpoint  cBruce Zuckerman  aNew York, U.S.A  bOxford University  c1991  a294tr.  bHardcover  c24cm  aThis 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.  aReligion -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament  a211001 TKH  c5937d5937  00104070aTVCDbTVCDd2026-01-20g0.00l0pTVCD-5937v0.00yBK