Bibliograph

Job the silent, a study in historical counterpoint, Bruce Zuckerman

Type

Label

Job the silent, a study in historical counterpoint, Bruce Zuckerman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Job the silent

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

47007885

Responsibility statement

Bruce Zuckerman

Series statement

Oxford scholarship online.

Sub title

a study in historical counterpoint

Summary

Originally published in 1991, a study of the book of Job and the understanding of how biblical texts evolve in the process of transmission. Zuckerman presents a thesis that the book of Job was intended as a parody and compares it to the Yiddish story "Bontshe Shvayg"

Target audience

specialized

Classification