Job the Silent: A Study in Historical CounterpointOxford University Press, 1998 M07 23 - 304 páginas 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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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 |
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