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082			_a223.106
082			_bB886-Z94
100			_aZuckerman, Bruce
100			_eAuthor
245			_aJob the silent
245			_bA study in historical counterpoint
245			_cBruce Zuckerman
260			_aNew York, U.S.A
260			_bOxford University
260			_c1991
300			_a294tr.
300			_bHardcover
300			_c24cm
520			_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.
650			_aReligion -- Biblical Studies -- Old Testament
957			_a211001 TKH
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