Job the Silent: A Study in Historical Counterpoint - Brossura

Zuckerman, Bruce

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ISBN 10: 0195121279 ISBN 13: 9780195121278

Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, 1998

Riassunto

This 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.

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Recensione:

'This is one of the most fascinating and perceptive studies of the book of Job that I have read.' (Journal of Theological Studies)

'[A] scintillating study...a magnificent counterpoint to the traditional interpretation of the book of Job' (Hebrew Studies)

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• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0195121279
• ISBN 13: 9780195121278
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 312