Humanist Comic Elements in Aristophanes and the Old Testament / / Benjamin M. Lazarus.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015
• VerfasserIn: Lazarus, Benjamin M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Biblical Intersections ; Volume
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (317 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; COMIC THEORY AND THE OLD TESTAMENT --; CHAPTER 1: BALAAM AND PEACE --; CHAPTER 2: BIRDS AND SAMSON --; CHAPTER 3: FROGS AND JONAH --; CHAPTER 4: TOBIT AND WEALTH --; CONCLUSION --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463235604; 9783110663037; 9783110716849
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463235604
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Benjamin M. Lazarus.

Lazarus compares and discusses comic elements used for didactic purposes in two separate literary traditions: Old Testament narrative and Aristophanic Comedies. Given that humour relies on taking people's ideas of what is normal and making them incongruous, this volume examines these very different texts to see how they use that comic incongruity to help define what it means to be human within the hierarchy of the universe.