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Book SynopsisIt 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.
Table of ContentsContents 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
