Job the Silent
Author | : Bruce Zuckerman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1998-07-23 |
ISBN-10 | : 0195121279 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780195121278 |
Rating | : 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Download or read book Job the Silent written by Bruce Zuckerman and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1998-07-23 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an original reading of the book of Job, one of the great literary classics of biblical literature, this book develops a new analogical method for understanding how biblical texts evolve in the process of transmission. Zuckerman argues that the book of Job was intended as a parody protesting the stereotype of the traditional righteous sufferer as patient and silent. He compares the book of Job and its fate to that of a famous Yiddish short story, "Bontsye Shvayg," another covert parody whose protagonist has come to be revered as a paradigm of innocent Jewish suffering. Zuckerman uses the story to prove how a literary text becomes separated from the intention of its author, and takes on quite a different meaning for a specific community of readers.