God Laughed : Sources of Jewish Humor Paperback / softback
by Hershey H. Friedman
Part of the Routledge Jewish Studies Series series
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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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- Pages:366 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:15/11/2017
- ISBN:9781138510401
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:366 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:15/11/2017
- ISBN:9781138510401