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Are We Amused?

Humour About Women In the Biblical World

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

AvAthalya Brenner-Idan,Laura Quick,Athalya Brenner

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2003-11-01
Mått152 x 232 x 14 mm
Vikt282 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieLibrary of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies
Antal sidor170
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9780567083302

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Athalya Brenner, Introduction; I Essays; Scott Spencer, Those Riotous (yet Righteous) Women in Jesus' Past: Exploring Matthew's Comic Genealogy; Mary E. Shields, 'More Righteous than I': The Comeuppance of the Trickster in Genesis 38; Kathleen M. O'Connor, Humor, Turnabouts, and Survival in the Book of Esther; Toni Craven, Is that fearfully funny? Some Instances from the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books; Kathy Williams, At the Expense of Women: Humor(?) in Acts 16: 14-40; Athalya Brenner, Are We Amused? Some Female Figurations in Josephus Flavius; Gale A. Yee, Ooooh, Onan! Geschlechtsgeschicte and Women in the Biblical World. II Responses; A.-J. Levine, Esther Fuchs, Laughing With/At/As Women: How Should We Read Biblical Humor? Appendix: Babble/Bible Light: On Some Biblical Women