Acknowledgements; Note on translation and transliteration; Introduction: an anatomy of comedy in the Bible; Part I. The Genesis of Comedy - The Comedy of Genesis: 1. The comedy of creation; 2. Domestic comedy in the household of faith: Israel's fathers and mothers as comic figures; Part II. Generating Comedy: Biblical texts and the drive to comic regeneration: 3. Liberation and laughter: Exodus and Esther as two comedies of deliverance; 4. Jonah as joke: a comedy of contradiction, caricature and compassion; 5. The comedy of Job: creation, chaos and carnival; 6. Paradox and parody in the Song of Soloman: towards a comic reading of the Song of Songs; Conclusion: towards a comprehensive view of biblical comedy; Bibliography; Indexes.
This study explores in a comprehensive and provocative way the presence of comedy in the Hebrew Scriptures.
..".thanks to Wheedbee, the reader will learn to relish the comic aspects of the Bible and to experience the profound, regenerative and consciousness-expanding power that all great comedy possesses." Bible Review
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