Job the Silent [electronic resource] : A Study in Historical Counterpoint
Zuckerman, Bruce.
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press,
1991.
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 parodyprotesting 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 t
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Contents; Introduction; PART: I; 1. The ""Patience"" Problem; 2. The Akedah Model; 3. The Case against a Linear Reading; 4. Super-Job; 5. Anti-Job; 6. Super-Reality; 7. The ""Sincerely Wrong"" Approach; PART: II; 8. Barriers to Interpretation and the ""Bontsye-Model""; 9. The Art of Parody: The Dialogue/Appeal; 10. The Art of Parody: The Legal Metaphor; 11. The Art of Parody: The Death Theme; 12. Supplemental Themes; 13. Intervening Themes; 14. Conclusion: The Joban Fugue; Appendix: The Text and Translation of Y. L. Perets' ""Bontsye Shvayg""; Abbreviations; Notes; Index of Authors; A; B; C
DE; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; Index of Ancient Sources
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 parodyprotesting 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 t
Description based on print version record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Job (Biblical figure)
Bible.
Bible. -- O.T. -- Job -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Christianity.
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Job -- (Biblical figure).
Job (Biblical figure)
Judaism
Religion
Philosophy & Religion