Author : J. William Whedbee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 27,83 MB
Release : 1998-05-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780521495073
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.
Author : Kingstone Media Group, Inc.
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 18,65 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 1414396678
"Unabridged version previously published in 2016 in three volumes as The Kingstone Bible by Kingstone Comics."
Author : Athalya Brenner-Idan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 37,71 MB
Release : 1990-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567202348
In comparison with other literary aspects of the Old Testament, humour has suffered much scholarly neglect. The present collection of essays (by the editors and ten other authors) argues that humour is plentiful in biblical literature and that many passages, indeed even whole books, can be properly understood only when the humorous intention of the author is acknowledged. This collection is a particularly interesting, innovative and provocative one.
Author : M. Conrad Hyers
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780804216531
Recognizing "a playful spirit" as part of our human makeup, Conrad Hyers shows how laughter and humor are integral to our serious study of the Bible. He opens the joy of understanding the Bible in its fullness. With the darker realities of the Bible -- sin, suffering, and death -- there coexists a lighter side -- laughter, humor, and playfulness. Competent biblical study requires both perspectives. This highly readable, preachable, and teachable work gives ministers, students, lay readers a valuable tool for recovering the spirit and offers a chance to share in the celebration of life and the divine comedy of faith, hope, and love.
Author : N. Rawlinson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,76 MB
Release : 2002-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230287239
Blake's comic brilliance has been variously dismissed as the nervous ramblings of a neglected genius, the tomfool doodles of a distracted youngster, or a crude tool for destabilizing textual authority. But, for the eighteenth century, comedy played a pivotal role in debates on aesthetics, education, spirituality and morality. This exciting new study blends a close reading of Blake's early work with fascinating historical research to demonstrate that the comic was an essential component of Blake's artistic Vision.
Author : Yehuda Thomas Radday
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 34,23 MB
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Bible
ISBN : 1850757011
Author : Joe Kubert
Publisher : DC Comics
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 2020-09-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 140124176X
In 1975, DC Comics published a comics adaptation of the Bible as part of a series of tabloid-sized comic books. This first book in the projected series adapted the earliest chapters of the book of Genesis, including the stories of The Garden of Eden, the Flood, and Sodom and Gomorrah. While the adaptation never continued, this first volume has become something of a legend among collectors. Now, for the first time, DC reprints this hard-to-find classic in a deluxe hardcover edition.
Author : Michael Pearl
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2011-05-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781613280195
The Kingstone Bible is a collection of classic stories of faith from the Old Testament including the creation of mankind through the Tower of Babel, Moses and the Exodus, the deliverance of the Jews from Egypt, the Ten Commandments, the journey into the Promised Land, Esther and the deliverance of Jews, and Samson and his moral failings, but ultimate triumph.
Author : Athalya Brenner-Idan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 14,75 MB
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0826426271
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.
Author : Melissa Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199656770
This book explores the Hebrew Bible for evidence of comedy and further asks how reading the Hebrew Bible through a comic "lens" might positively inform feminist interpretation. The exploration is conducted with a number of Hebrew Bible narratives, all of which prominently involve female characters.
