Are we amused? : humour about women in the biblical worlds / edited by Athalya Brenner.
Contributor(s): Brenner, Athalya
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TextSeries: BTC (Series): ; Journal for the study of the Old Testament: Publisher: London, England ; New York, N.Y. : T & T Clark International, [2003]Copyright date: ©2003Description: viii, 158 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0567083306 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780567083302 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Women in the Bible
| Wit and humor in the Bible | Bible -- Feminist criticismDDC classification: 220.6 LOC classification: BS575 | .A74 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Introduction / Athalya Brenner -- Those riotous, yet righteous, foremothers of Jesus : exploring Matthew's comic genealogy / F. Scott Spencer -- "More righteous than I" : the comeuppance of the trickster in Genesis 38 / Mary E. Shields -- Humor, turnabouts and survival in the book of Esther / Kathleen M. O'Connor -- Is that fearfully funny? : some instances from the apocryphal/deuterocanonical books / Toni Craven -- At the expense of women : humor (?) in Acts 16.14-40 / Kathy Williams -- Are we amused? : small and big differences in Josephus' re-presentations of Biblical female figures in the Jewish antiquities 1-8 / Athalya Brenner -- Ooooh, Onan! : Geschlechtsgeschichte and women in the Biblical world / Gale A. Yee -- Women's humor and other creative juices / Amy-Jill Levine -- Laughing with/at/as women : how should we read Biblical humor? / Esther Fuchs -- Appendix : Babble/Bible light : on some Biblical women.