Illuminating humor of the Bible
"A time to laugh" : humor "more abundantly"Jonah as joke : lightening up the orthodox -- "Turned to the contrary" : comic reversal in Esther -- Eve's initiative, Sarah's sassiness, and Jael's nail : humor as social justice -- "Peter stood at the door...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Eugene, Oregon
Cascade Books
2013
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "A time to laugh" : humor "more abundantly"Jonah as joke : lightening up the orthodox -- "Turned to the contrary" : comic reversal in Esther -- Eve's initiative, Sarah's sassiness, and Jael's nail : humor as social justice -- "Peter stood at the door knocking" : slapstick in Acts -- "A ruddy countenance" : David as trickster -- "And who is my neighbor?" : odd couples in Genesis -- "Man thinks, God laughs" : humor as morality. |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-224) and indexes |
| Beschreibung: | xiii, 242 pages 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781620321485 978-1-62032-148-5 1620321483 1-62032-148-3 |