{"product_id":"9780195058963","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. Bruce 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.  ","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022516338928,"sku":"9780195058963","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780195058963_p0.jpg?v=1763662953","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780195058963","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}