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humour about women in the biblical worlds
viii, 158 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [143]-151) and indexes.
Journal for the study of the Old Testament. 383