This volume reevaluates scholarly definitions of irony and the use of the term in biblical research, builds on existing methods of interpretation of ironic texts, offers judicious analyses of methodological approaches to irony in the Bible, and develops fresh insights into biblical passages.
Author(s): Tobias Hner, Virginia Miller, Carolyn J. Sharp
Series: Biblical Interpretation, 209
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 350
City: Leiden
Contents
Abbreviations
Contributors
Introduction: Reading Irony in Ancient Texts
Part 1
Irony in the Pentateuch
1 Respectful Parody of Exodus Traditions
in Genesis 15–16
2
Widerstand, Sympathie und Entlarvung: Ironie im Exodusbuch
3
Is Leviticus Ironic? Exploring Narratival and Priestly Ironies in the Center of the Torah
4
Die Ironie des Deuteronomiums
Part 2
Irony in the Writings
5
Gottes Fragen: Ironie in der ersten Gottesrede des Ijobbuchs (Ijob 38,1–39,30)
6
Ironic Criticism in the Prose Framework of Job
7
Not Parody, but Irony: Irony in the Book of Job
8
Irony in the Elihu Speeches?
9
A Typological Interpretation of Job That Is Dependent on Irony
10
Mockery and Irony in the Psalms
11
Ironic Contestations as a Care Strategy in Lamentations
12
Die Theologie des Buches Kohelet im Zeichen von Ironie und Ambiguität. Eine Skizze
13
Hosting Its Own Otherness: Irony in the Book of Esther
Part 3
Irony in the Literature of the Prophets
14
An Ironic Overture in the Book of Jeremiah
15
Irony in Ezekiel’s Book
16
Entertaining Contradictions: Continuing the Conversation on Irony in the Book of Jonah
Part 4
Irony in the Deuterocanonical Books
17
“Foiled by the Hand of a Woman”: Irony in the Book of Judith
18
Ironie und Ambiguität im Buch der Weisheit
Part 5
Irony in the New Testament
19
The Source of Irony in the Fourth Gospel
20
Disambiguating Forms of Irony in Second Corinthians 10–13
Index of Subjects
