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Are We Amused Humour About Women In the Biblical World Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 383 Athalya Brenner Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Athalya Brenner
ISBN(s): 9780826470836, 0826470831
Edition: Supplement
File Details: PDF, 8.07 MB
Year: 2003
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0826470831 

ISBN 13: 9780826470836

Author: Athalya Brenner

Biblical humor about women and gender remains elusive for many readers, for its recognition may imply the realization that it’s a cruel and disrespectful humor, ridicule rather than good-natured fun. But viewing humor as social critique, as is largely done in the essays in this volume, with respect to both the texts read and their actual or implied author, may be fun as well as significant for understanding the biblical worlds. As most of the essays show, writing about women is writing about men as well. In other words, it is writing about gender roles. The critique of women, womanhood and femaleness implied by biblical and related texts serves, in equal measure, as a critique of men, manhood and maleness in the texts, of the texts authors, and of the texts’ commentators and readers. Contributors include Scott Spencer, Mary Shields, Kathleen O’Connor, Toni Craven, Kathy Williams, Athalya Brenner, Gale Yee, Amy-Jill Levine, and Esther Fuchs.

Table of contents:

Part I: ESSAYS

  1. Those Riotous—Yet Righteous—Foremothers of Jesus: Exploring Matthew’s Comic Genealogy

  2. ‘More Righteous than I’: The Comeuppance of the Trickster in Genesis 38

  3. Humor, Turnabouts and Survival in the Book of Esther

  4. Is that Fearfully Funny? Some Instances from the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books

  5. At the Expense of Women: Humor(?) in Acts 16.14-40

  6. Are We Amused? Small and Big Differences in Josephus’ Re-Presentations of Biblical Female Figures

  7. Ooooh, Onan! Geschlechtsgeschichte and Women in the Biblical World

Part II: RESPONSES
     8. Women’s Humor and Other Creative Juices

     9. Laughing with/at/as Women: How Should We Read Biblical Humor?

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