God Laughed: Sources of Jewish Humor

ISBN-13: 9781138510401 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 366 str.

Hershey H. Friedman

Opis

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

Spis treści

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part I: Introduction

1 Studying Jewish Humor
2 A Word on the Sources: Biblical, Talmudic, and Midrashic Literature

Part II: Heavenly Humor

3 Does God Have a Sense of Humor?
4 Biblical Humor: From Irony, Sarcasm, Wordplay to Humorous Imagery
5 No Match for God: Satan as Trickster

Part III: Humor in the Talmud and Midrash

6 Humor in the Talmud and Midrash: An Overview
7 Recurring Characters and Themes
8 Satire, Irony, and Self-Deprecating Humor
9 Sarcasm
10 Exaggerated Imagery and Other Hyperbole
11 Wordplay: Puns, Acrostics, and Riddles
12 Humorous Sayings and Remarks
13 Allegories, Parables, and Fables
14 Talmudic Tales
15 Humorous Cases and Other Absurdities

Part IV Conclusion

16 Is There a "Jewish" Sense of Humor?

Appendixes
Appendix A: Important Dates In Jewish History
Appendix B: The Time Periods of the Talmudic Sages
Appendix C: The Sages and Their Generations
Appendix D: Classic Commentators
Appendix E: Mostly Punch Lines, an Index of Jokes

Notes

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

Hershey H. Friedman