On Humour and the Comic in the Hebrew Bible

ISBN: 9781850752417 出版年：1990 页码：329 Athalya Brenner-Idan Yehuda T Radday Bloomsbury Publishing

In comparison with other literary aspects of the Old Testament, humour has suffered much scholarly neglect. The present collection of essays (by the editors and ten other authors) argues that humour is plentiful in biblical literature and that many passages, indeed even whole books, can be properly understood only when the humorous intention of the author is acknowledged. This collection is a particularly interesting, innovative and provocative one.