{"product_id":"job-the-silent-bruce-zuckerman-9780195121278","title":"Job the Silent: A Study in Historical Counterpoint","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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Bruce Zuckerman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0195121279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780195121278\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/23\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.91d","brand":"Bruce Zuckerman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48457657876735,"sku":"9780195121278","price":83.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6eb4dab6-d14d-4f9f-b946-ad909368c4d0.jpg?v=1777400344","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/job-the-silent-bruce-zuckerman-9780195121278","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}