Job the Silent: A Study in Historical Counterpoint

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Oxford University Press, 23. 7. 1998 - 304 strán (strany)
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.

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Introduction
3
The Patience Problem
13
The Case against a Linear Reading
25
SuperJob
34
SuperReality
59
The Sincerely Wrong Approach
77
Barriers to Interpretation
87
The DialogueAppeal
93
The Legal Metaphor
104
The Death Theme
118
The Joban Fugue
175
The Text and Translation of Y L Perets
181
Index of Authors
283
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