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Comedy and Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew Bible: A Subversive
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- 9780199656776
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- Hardback, 298 pages
- Book Title
- Comedy and Feminist Interpretation of the Hebrew B
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- 2.3 cm
- Item Length
- 21.8 cm
- Item Weight
- 0.49 kg
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- 14.5 cm
- Language
- Eng
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- Oxford University Press
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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 n-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) ackwledge 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 t 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.
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Oxford University Press
ISBN-10
0199656770
ISBN-13
9780199656776
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508g
Height
223mm
Width
161mm
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Place of Publication
Oxford
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24mm
Series Title
Oxford Theological Monographs
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Date of Publication
26/07/2012
Subject
Christianity: Bibles & Liturgy
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Publication
United Kingdom
Genre
Christianity: Bibles & Liturgy
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