Overview

It is generally agreed that there is significant irony in the Bible. However, to date no work has been published in biblical scholarship that on the one hand includes interpretations of both Hebrew Bible and New Testament writings under the perspective of irony, and on the other hand offers a panorama of the approaches to the different types and functions of irony in biblical texts. The following volume: (1) reevaluates scholarly definitions of irony and the use of the term in biblical research; (2) builds on existing methods of interpretation of ironic texts; (3) offers judicious analyses of methodological approaches to irony in the Bible; and (4) develops fresh insights into biblical passages.

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Author:   Tobias Häner ,  Virginia Miller ,  Carolyn J. Sharp
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   209
Weight:   0.709kg
ISBN:  

9789004536326

ISBN 10:   9004536329
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   09 March 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Abbreviations List of Contributors Introduction: Reading Irony in Ancient Texts  Tobias Häner and Virginia Miller Part 1: Irony in the Pentateuch 1 Respectful Parody of Exodus Traditions in Genesis 15–16  Mark G. Brett 2 Widerstand, Sympathie und Entlarvung: Ironie im Exodusbuch  Carolin Neuber 3 Is Leviticus Ironic? Exploring Narratival and Priestly Ironies in the Center of the Torah  Mark A. Awabdy 4 Die Ironie des Deuteronomiums  Benjamin Kilchör Part 2: Irony in the Writings 5 Gottes Fragen: Ironie in der ersten Gottesrede des Ijobbuchs (Ijob 38,1–39,30)  Tobias Häner 6 Ironic Criticism in the Prose Framework of Job  Raik Heckl 7 Not Parody, but Irony: Irony in the Book of Job  JiSeong J. Kwon 8 Irony in the Elihu Speeches?  Stephan Lauber 9 A Typological Interpretation of Job That Is Dependent on Irony  Virginia Miller 10 Mockery and Irony in the Psalms  Beat Weber 11 Ironic Contestations as a Care Strategy in Lamentations  Gregory Lee Cuéllar 12 Die Theologie des Buches Kohelet im Zeichen von Ironie und Ambiguität. Eine Skizze  Ludger Schwienhorst-Schönberger 13 Hosting Its Own Otherness: Irony in the Book of Esther  Timothy Beal Part 3: Irony in the Literature of the Prophets 14 An Ironic Overture in the Book of Jeremiah  Keith Bodner 15 Irony in Ezekiel’s Book  Stephen L. Cook 16 Entertaining Contradictions: Continuing the Conversation on Irony in the Book of Jonah  L. Juliana Claassens Part 4: Irony in the Deuterocanonical Books 17 “Foiled by the Hand of a Woman”: Irony in the Book of Judith  Stephen D. Cook 18 Ironie und Ambiguität im Buch der Weisheit  Luca Mazzinghi Part 5: Irony in the New Testament 19 The Source of Irony in the Fourth Gospel  John Painter 20 Disambiguating Forms of Irony in Second Corinthians 10–13  Matthew Pawlak Index of Subjects

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Tobias Häner, Dr. theol. (2013), is assistant professor of Old Testament at the Cologne University of Catholic Theology (KHKT). Among his main research areas are the Book of Job and the Book of Ezekiel (Bleibendes Nachwirken des Exils. Untersuchung zur kanonischen Endgestalt des Ezechielbuches, Herder 2014). Virginia Miller, Ph.D. (2016) is a research fellow at the Centre for Religion, Ethics and Society, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, and a STD candidate at the Gregorian University, Rome. She is the author of A King and a Fool? The Succession Narrative as a Satire (2019). Carolyn J. Sharp, Ph.D. (2000), Yale University, is Professor of Homiletics at Yale Divinity School. She has authored seven books, including Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible (2009), a commentary on Joshua (2019), and a commentary on Jeremiah 26–52 (2022).

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