Heckling the Divine:

Kalman, Jason

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“…The text, as humor often is, is shocking in its depictions and in its inversion of roles: God becomes laughable in his actions as the classic depiction of Him, as omnipotent, omniscient, and just, is thrown out the window but Job, in his protest, becomes heroic. 54 In the end, Job lets God go while reminding God of God's responsibility toward God's children.…”

Section: The Comedy Of Job Reconsideredmentioning

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Tragic Laughter: Laughter as Resistance in the Book of Job

Claassens

2015

Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

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Observing that linguistic forms in Job only appear in the exilic or postexilic period (25)(26), and that intertextual connections with other parts of the Hebrew Bible suggest Job must have been written after the books of Jeremiah and Lamentations, at about the same time as Deutero-Isaiah (40-42), Seow chooses to date Job to the late sixth and early fifth century in postexilic Yehud (45). Alison Lo proposes that the book of Job does not refer to one historical event but rather challenges the reader to view suffering in a new way; see Job 28 as Rhetoric: An

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Section: The Comedy Of Job Reconsideredmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tragic Laughter: Laughter as Resistance in the Book of Job

Claassens

2015

Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology

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Unraveling the seriousness fallacy: a case for (the study of) humor and religion

Graham

2024

Humor

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This article establishes and demonstrates the importance of the topic of humor and religion. It traces the evolution of the existing scholarship on humor and religion, from its emergence in the 1960s, to its revival in the 1990s, and its latest resurgence in recent years. To overlook the presence of the comic, humor, and laughter in religious traditions is to overlook something significant. This article will demonstrate how interrogating and overcoming biases and preconceptions about the relationship between humor and religion reveals opportunities in both religious studies and humor studies. As such, this article offers a rejection of the existing privilege that is granted to ‘serious’ matters and argues for the inclusion of the non-serious – with a particular emphasis on humor – within (the study of) religion. In arguing for the necessity of taking the study of the (allegedly) non-serious seriously, the artificial nature of the binary of serious/non-serious becomes apparent. As such, this article begins to challenge and re-evaluate the conceptualization of ‘the serious’ and the limitations this inevitably places on our thinking and engagement regarding matters such as humor and religion.

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Rethinking humour in the Book of Jonah: Tragic laughter as resistance in the context of trauma

Claassens

2015

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Heckling the Divine:

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Tragic Laughter: Laughter as Resistance in the Book of Job

Tragic Laughter: Laughter as Resistance in the Book of Job

Unraveling the seriousness fallacy: a case for (the study of) humor and religion

Rethinking humour in the Book of Jonah: Tragic laughter as resistance in the context of trauma

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