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    Are We Amused?

    Humour about Women in the Biblical Worlds

    edited by

    Athalya Brenner

    T&.T CLARK INTERNATIONAL A Continuum imprint


    LONDON NEW YORK

    Copyright 2003 T&T Clark International A Continuum imprint Published by T&T Clark International The Tower Building, 11 York Road, London SE1 7NX 15 East 26th Street, Suite 1703, New York, NY 10010 www.tandtclark.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Typeset and edited for Continuum by Forthcoming Publications Ltd www.forthcomingpublications.com Printed on acid-free paper in Great Britain by The Cromwell Press.

    ISBN 0-8264-7083-1 (hardback) 0-5670-8330-6 (paperback)

    CONTENTS
    Series Editor's Preface Abbreviations vii ix

    ATHALYA BRENNER
    Introduction Parti 1

    ESSAYS F. SCOTT SPENCER


    Those RiotousYet RighteousForemothers of Jesus: Exploring Matthew's Comic Genealogy 7

    MARY E. SHIELDS
    'More Righteous than I': The Comeuppance of the Trickster in Genesis 38 31 52

    KATHLEEN M. O'CONNOR
    Humor, Turnabouts and Survival in the Book of Esther

    TONI CRAVEN
    Is that Fearfully Funny? Some Instances from the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books 65

    KATHY WILLIAMS
    At the Expense of Women: Humor(?) in Acts 16.14-40 79

    ATHALYA BRENNER
    Are We Amused? Small and Big Differences in Josephus' Re-Presentations of Biblical Female Figures in the Jewish Antiquities 1-8 90

    vi

    Are We Amused?

    GALE A. YEE
    Ooooh, Onan! Geschlechtsgeschicte and Women in the Biblical World Part II 107

    RESPONSES AMY-JILL LEVINE


    Women's Humor and Other Creative Juices 120

    ESTHER FUCHS
    Laughing with/at/as Women: How Should We Read Biblical Humor? 127

    APPENDIX: BABBLE/BIBLE LIGHT: ON SOME BIBLICAL WOMEN


    General Bibliography Index of References Index of Authors

    137
    143 152 156

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