Comedy And Feminist Interpretation Of The Hebrew Bible

Author : Melissa Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191630767

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Comedy and Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible by Melissa Jackson Pdf

Comedy is both relative, linked to a time and culture, and universal, found pervasively across time and culture. The Hebrew Bible contains comedy of this relative, yet universal nature. Melissa A. Jackson engages the Hebrew Bible via a comic reading and brings that reading into conversation with feminist-critical interpretation, in resistance to any lingering stereotype that comedy is fundamentally non-serious or that feminist critique is fundamentally unsmiling. Dividing comic elements into categories of literary devices, psychological/social features, and psychological/social function, Jackson examines the narratives of a number of biblical characters for evidence of these comic elements. The characters include the trickster matriarchs, the women involved in the infancy of Moses, Rahab, Deborah and Jael, Delilah, three of David's wives (Michal, Abigail, Bathsheba), Jezebel, Ruth, and Esther. Nine particularly instructive points of contact between comedy and feminist interpretation emerge: both (1) resist definition, (2) exist amidst a self/other, subject/object dichotomy, (3) emphasise and utilise context, (4) promote creativity, (5) acknowledge the concept of distancing, (6) work towards revelation, (7) are subversive, (8) are concerned with containment and control, and (9) enable survival. The use of comedy as an interpretive lens for the Hebrew Bible is not without difficulties for feminist interpretation. While maintaining an uncomfortable, even painful, awareness of the hold patriarchy retains on the Hebrew Bible, feminist critics can still choose to allow comedy's revelatory, subversive, survivalist nature to do its work revealing, subverting, and surviving.

Author : Yehuda Thomas Radday,Yehuda T. Radday,Athalya Brenner
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781850757016

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On Humour and the Comic in the Hebrew Bible by Yehuda Thomas Radday,Yehuda T. Radday,Athalya Brenner Pdf

Author : Susanne Scholz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1909697079

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Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect by Susanne Scholz Pdf

Author : Athalya Brenner,Carole R. Fontaine
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1579583504

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A Feminist Companion to Reading the Bible by Athalya Brenner,Carole R. Fontaine Pdf

This anthology examines Love's Labours Lost from a variety of perspectives and through a wide range of materials. Selections discuss the play in terms of historical context, dating, and sources; character analysis; comic elements and verbal conceits; evidence of authorship; performance analysis; and feminist interpretations. Alongside theater reviews, production photographs, and critical commentary, the volume also includes essays written by practicing theater artists who have worked on the play. An index by name, literary work, and concept rounds out this valuable resource.

Author : Susanne Scholz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Bible
ISBN : OCLC:856627256

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Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect by Susanne Scholz Pdf

Author : Sarah Emanuel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781108496599

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Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation by Sarah Emanuel Pdf

Positions Revelation within an ancient Jewish context and demonstrates how the author used humor to resist Roman power.

Author : Peter S. Perry
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666711318

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Biblical Humor and Performance by Peter S. Perry Pdf

What’s so humorous about the Bible? Quite a bit, especially if experienced with others! Nine biblical scholars explore their experiences of reading and hearing passages from the Bible and discovering humor that becomes clearer in performance. Each writer found clues in their chosen biblical text that suggested biblical authors expected an audience to respond with laughter. Performers have a powerful role in either bringing out or tamping down humor in the Bible. One audience may be more disposed to respond to humor than another. And each contributor found that experiencing humor changed the interpretation of the biblical passage. From Genesis to Revelation, this study uncovers the Bible’s potential for humor.

Author : Susanne Scholz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1910928119

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Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible in Retrospect. III. Methods by Susanne Scholz Pdf

This is the third of a set of three volumes reviewing the progress of feminist Hebrew Bible scholarship over the last forty years. In this third volume, eighteen contribu-tors focus on the wide range of exegetical methods as they have been productively employed in feminist bibli-cal interpretations. More specifically, each essay investigates how feminist Hebrew Bible exegetes have worked with exegetical methods. Each essay surveys the method under con-sid-eration as it has emerged in academic discourse gener-ally and in biblical studies in particular. Each es-say also explains how feminist uses of the various exe-getical methods have been deeply embedded within the theo-logical, cultural, and even political expecta-tions and as-sumptions of readers of the Bible. This volume asks readers to come to terms with the following question: What are the best methods for feminist exegesis in the light of past and present socio-political, theological, or hermeneutical developments in reading the Bible? After all, feminist theorists have come to recognize that methods are always already situated within powerful epistemological and method-ological structures that have their roots in vast arrays of histori-cal, political, economic, social, and religious factors. This volume encourages feminist debate on these complex issues that stand at the heart of biblical exege-sis."

Author : David Feltmate
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781040012017

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Religion and Humour by David Feltmate Pdf

This timely and lively introduction to exploring the intersection of religion and humour evaluates existing scholarship and methodologies within the field, arguing for a culturally critical approach to the study. Hinged on a qualitative sociological framework, this book asks questions about the construction, presentation, and purpose of humour in religious contexts. It is broken down by theoretical approach, with chapters covering: a “comparative religions” approach; a theological approach; how social sciences offer us useful tools for research; and a review of existing theoretical models. As the first volume to introduce the field of religion and humour, this engaging book is essential reading for students approaching the topic for the first time, and for anyone with an interest in related fields such as religion and popular culture and humour studies.

Author : Andrzej Toczyski SDB
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567679055

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The ‘Geometrics’ of the Rahab Story by Andrzej Toczyski SDB Pdf

Examines the dialectic relationship between the text, conceived as the vehicle of narrative communication, and the reader in an assemenent of the story of Rahab – the prostitute from Jericho – in Josuha 2. Toczyski uses his study to examine how this story has been read by various audiences across time, the different interpretive perspectives and methodologies that have thus been brought to the text and the influences this has had on the manner in which the story has been interpreted. In particular Toczyski focuses on internal literary analysis of Joshua 2 and the external historical approach and what this can say about the readers of the text. The purpose of such insight is to register how successive interpretations overlap and set the interpretative pattern for subsequent generations of readers. As a result of this conceptual framework, Toczyski presents the Rahab story in the broader context of the communicative process, which has been challenging the story's readers for centuries. This deep immersion into both internal and external contexts reveals the generally-overlooked thread within the Rahab story, namely "the power of storytelling†?, which may prove relevant for contemporary readers by providing grounds for inter-cultural dialogue in the postmodern world.

Author : Katherine E. Southwood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-02
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781000163414

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Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising by Katherine E. Southwood Pdf

This book focuses on the expressions used to describe Job’s body in pain and on the reactions of his friends to explore the moral and social world reflected in the language and the values that their speeches betray. A key contribution of this monograph is to highlight how the perspective of illness as retribution is powerfully refuted in Job’s speeches and, in particular, to show how this is achieved through comedy. Comedy in Job is a powerful weapon used to expose and ridicule the idea of retribution. Rejecting the approach of retrospective diagnosis, this monograph carefully analyses the expression of pain in Job focusing specifically on somatic language used in the deity attack metaphors, in the deity surveillance metaphors and in the language connected to the body and social status. These metaphors are analysed in a comparative way using research from medical anthropology and sociology which focuses on illness narratives and expressions of pain. Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising will be of interest to anyone working on the Book of Job, as well as those with an interest in suffering and pain in the Hebrew Bible more broadly.

Author : J. William Whedbee
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451410050

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The Bible and the Comic Vision by J. William Whedbee Pdf

This insightful work examines the variety of ways that comedy is employed in the Old Testament. Exploring the depths of a seldom-noticed aspect of biblical literature, this book reveals the subtle uses of parody and satire to subversive effect in six biblical books. (July)

Author : Eryll Wynn Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351775267

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The Dissenting Reader by Eryll Wynn Davies Pdf

This title was first published in 2003. Few would deny that the Bible is an overwhelmingly patriarchal book that, over the centuries, has exercised considerable influence on the way in which women are perceived in society. From the opening chapters of Genesis, where woman is created to serve as man's "helper", to the pronouncements of Paul concerning the submission of wives to their husbands and the silencing of women in communal worship, the primary emphasis of the Bible is on woman's subordinate status. Feminist biblical critics raise the obvious question: how should women in communities of faith respond to the Bible's largely negative appraisal of women and oppressive patriarchal emphasis? Eryl Davies introduces the wide range of feminist approaches to the Hebrew Bible: from critics who recover neglected perspectives in the biblical tradition and argue that the Bible is not oppressively patriarchal, to others who reject biblical traditions, arguing that they are so immersed in a patriarchal culture that no parts are worth redeeming. Davies suggests that the most promising approach deploys a reader-oriented literary approach to the Hebrew Bible: by focusing on the literary representation of women through plot, dialogue and characterization, some of the subtle ways in which biblical authors sought to reinforce patriarchal values and endorse women's inferior status are highlighted. Davies argues that readers of the Hebrew Bible must be prepared to question and challenge the values and assumptions inherent in the text: they must don the mantle of the "dissenting reader" and apply what feminist biblical critics have termed a "hermeneutic of suspicion" to its content without denouncing the authority of the Bible as a sacred text.

Author : Keith Bodner,Benjamin J.M. Johnson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567680914

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Characters and Characterization in the Book of Kings by Keith Bodner,Benjamin J.M. Johnson Pdf

This book is an examination of characters in the books of Kings; showing how understanding and interpretation of key characters affects readings of the story. The volume begins with more general pieces addressing how the study of characters can shed light on the composition history of Kings and on how characters and characterization can be considered with respect to ethics, particularly with respect to the moral complexity of biblical characters. Contributors then consider key characters within the Kings narrative in depth, such as Nathan, Bathsheba, Solomon and Jezebel. The contributors use their own specific expertise to analyze these characters and more, drawing on insights from literary theory and considering such approaches as questioning our view of a particular character with based on the character within the text with whom we identify. Contributors also assess whether or not characters as portrayed in the biblical text necessarily match up to their possible counterparts in history.

Author : Susanne Scholz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567577085

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Introducing the Women's Hebrew Bible by Susanne Scholz Pdf

This book introduces readers to the diverse field of feminist studies on the Hebrew Bible. Not organized as a traditional introduction to the "Old Testament," the manuscript does not follow a biblical book-by-book structure, but provides an introductory survey of the history and issues as they relate to feminist readings and readers of the Hebrew Bible. Accordingly, feminist scholars of the Bible, their career struggles, and biblical texts, characters, and themes stand in the forefront of this introduction. The volume is biased toward "Western" feminist scholarship because of the historical developments of feminist scholarship in general and biblical studies in particular. Yet, the chapters also include African, Asian, and Latin American perspectives on feminist studies of the Hebrew Bible. In short, the book offers an overview on the historical, social, and academic developments of reading the Hebrew Bible as the "Women's Hebrew Bible."