God Laughed: Sources of Jewish Humor (Routledge Jewish Studies) - Hardcover

Friedman, Hershey H.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1412853761 ISBN 13: 9781412853767

Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

Humor has had a profound effect on the way the Jewish people see the world, and has sustained them through millennia of hardships and suffering. God Laughed reviews, organizes, and categorizes the humor of the ancient Jewish texts—the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, and Midrash—in a clear, readable, and accessible manner.

These works have influenced the Jewish people in many ways, and all are replete with humor and wit. Inevitably, this oeuvre of Jewish humor has itself influenced generations of comics, as well as genres of humor. The authors use examples of Biblical humor from several broad categories, including irony, sarcasm, wordplay, humorous names, humorous imagery, and humorous situations.

Because their primary purpose is not to entertain, but to teach humanity how to live the ideal life, much of the humor in the Talmud and the Midrash has a single purpose: to demonstrate that evil is wrong and even, at times, ludicrous. This may help explain why approximately 1,500 years after its closing, the Talmud is still such a fascinating work. God Laughed is the latest addition to Transaction's Jewish Studies series.

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• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1412853761
• ISBN 13: 9781412853767
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
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