This insightful work examines the variety of ways comedy is employed in the Old Testament. Biblical comedy unveils "a comic vision that oscillates between attack and affirmation, corrective and celebration, ridicule and revel." Here Whedbee reveals the subtle uses of parody and satire to subversive effect in six biblical books. But "the Bible characteristically does not stop with subversion, for the texts usually drive on toward an affirmation of life and a celebration of the wonder and hopefulness of creation.... In sum, subversion and celebration typically belong together in a comprehensive view of biblical comedy: subversion often serving to undercut and clear away obstacles to the realization of fertility and forgiveness; and celebration finding expression in festivals of freedom and hope."
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..".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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Apart from the occasional recognition of comic forms or motifs in biblical dress, the vast majority of interpreters have usually discounted or even disdained the possibility of the Bible having any significant place for the comic vision. This book attempts to make amends for this short-sighted, prejudicial perspective.
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The benefit of Whedbee's book is that it offers a fresh, new perspective to the Old Testament. If you are conservative in your understanding of the Bible, you often miss some important information in your seriousness in dealing with the Scriptures. If you are more modern in your reading of the text, you might easily pass over much of the data as outdated remnants of a bygone culture. The comic reading of the Old Testament offers a correction to either extremes.While I cannot say that I agree with all his conclusions, I have found this a valuable read as I teach the text of Genesis -- and it has opened new doors to other places in the Scriptures.
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biblical comedy, genocidal decree, primeval story, comic vision, comic reading, comic interpretation, comic movement, primal couple, comic perspective, comic sensibility, domestic comedy, garden story, comic spirit Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Old Testament, Song of Songs, Northrop Frye, Hebrew Bible, Red Sea, Near Eastern, Anatomy of Criticism, Fortress Press, John Knox Press, Robert Alter, Athalya Brenner, King Ahasuerus, Pomona College, Van Seters, Book of Jonah, Discovering Eve, Oxford University Press, San Francisco, The Meanings of Comedy, Book of Names, Cambridge University Press, Christopher Fry, Edwin Good, Francis Landy New!
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- Song of Songs (Old Testament Guides) by Athalya Brenner on 9 pages
- Song of Songs by Marvin H. Pope on 6 pages
- Irony in the Old Testament (Bible & Literature Series) by Edwin M. Good on 5 pages
- Song of Songs by Rh Value Publishing on 5 pages
- The Old Testament and the Literary Critic (Guides to Biblical scholarship : Old Testament series) by David A. Robertson on 4 pages
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- Albert Cohen: Dissonant Voices (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society) by Jack I. Abecassis on 4 pages
- Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans by Erich S. Gruen in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Glossalalia: An Alphabet of Critical Keywords by Julian Wolfreys on page 332, and page 338
- The Morality of Laughter by F. H. Buckley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Reading Ecclesiastes: A Literary and Cultural Exegesis (Heythrop Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, Religion and Theology) (Heythrop Studies in Contemporary Philosophy, Religion and Theology) by Mary E. Mills on page 55, and Back Matter
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