Job the Silent
A Study in Historical Counterpoint
1st Edition
Published on 22. October 1998
305 pages
978-0-19-535295-5 (ISBN)
Description
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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Content
- Intro
- 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
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
- Index of Ancient Sources
