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Job the Silent: A Study in Historical Counterpoint - Couverture souple

Zuckerman, Bruce

 
9780195121278: Job the Silent: A Study in Historical Counterpoint
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0195121279 ISBN 13 : 9780195121278
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 1998

Synopsis

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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Revue de presse

'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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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
1998
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0195121279
ISBN 13 
9780195121278
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
312
Coordonnées du fabricant
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