Humanist Comic Elements in Aristophanes and the Old Testament / / 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 diffe...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2014] ©2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Biblical Intersections ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (317 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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