Are we amused? : humour about women in the biblical worlds /: humour about women in the biblical worlds. (©2003)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Athalya Brenner.
• Other Names: Brenner-Idan, Athalya
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: London New York : T & T Clark International
• Publication Date: 2003
• Copyright Date: 2003
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 158 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 220.6; Women in the Bible; Wit and humor in the Bible; Femmes dans la Bible; Humour dans la Bible; RELIGION -- Biblical Reference -- Quotations; Feminist criticism; Wit and humor in the Bible; Women in the Bible; Bijbel; Vrouwen; Humor (grappigheden); Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780826426277; 0826426271
• Related ISBNs: 9780826470836; 0826470831; 0567083306
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-151) and indexes.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.