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Reduced laughter : seriocomic features and their functions in the Book of Kings /
In this book Helen Paynter offers a radical re-evalution of the central section of Kings. Reading with attention to the literary devices of carnivalization and mirroring, she demonstrates that it contains a florid satire on kings, prophets and nations. Building on the work of humorists, literary cri...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Biblical interpretation series ;
v. 142. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures
- List of Abbreviations
- Miscellaneous Conventions
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Humorous Genres within the Bible?
- Humour, Truth and Gravity
- How we Read the Bible
- Outline of the Investigation
- Chapter 2 Some Unanswered Questions in the Book of Kings
- The Interplay of Diachronic and Synchronic Approaches to the Text
- Methodological Decisions
- The Central Portion of Kings
- Enigma: The Ethical Content of the Prophets' Actions
- Enigma: The Prominence of Israel and the Peculiar Privilege of Aram
- Enigma: The Command-Prophecy formula in I Kings 19:15-17
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3 Seriocomic Readings and the Mise-en-abyme: Useful Heuristics for Biblical Criticism?
- Introduction to the Life and Work of Bakhtin
- Bakhtin and the Dialogical Novel
- Bakhtin and Carnival
- Menippean Satire
- Transferability to the Bible?
- Polyphony and the Hebrew Bible
- Carnival and the Hebrew Bible
- Biblical Scholarship and Bakhtin
- Towards a Diagnostic Heuristic
- Mise-en-abyme
- Chapter 4 An Investigation into the Seriocomic Elements at the Heart of Kings
- Francisco García-Treto on Jehu
- Examining for Diagnostic Features of the Seriocomic Genre
- Violation of Linguistic Norms
- Inversion of Hierarchy and Reversals
- Masking and Foolery
- Feasting
- Transgression of Bodily Barriers and the Grotesque
- Profanation of the Sacred
- Fantasticality
- Comparison with Similar Passages in the Rest of Kings
- Comparison with Parallel Passages in Chronicles
- Conclusion
- Chapter 5 Anti-prophetic Rhetoric
- The Prophets of Baal
- False Prophets of YHWH
- Elijah
- Elijah's Self-pity?
- Elijah's Hubris?
- Elisha
- The Word of YHWH and the Prophet
- The Magic of the Man of God?
- Elisha's Reputation
- The Lying Prophet?
- The Irony of the Bears.
- Satire of the Shunammite
- Naaman and the Servants
- Evidence for an Anti-prophetic Satire
- Chapter 6 The Command-Prophecy Formula
- Establishing an Inclusio
- Crowning-decrowning
- Limits of the Central Section
- Setting Up a Parallelism
- Chapter 7 Satire against Kings and Nations
- Critique of Aram Mirrored upon Israel
- The Wise and Foolish Kings
- The Blinding of the Aramean Soldiers and the Siege of Samaria
- Use of Pagan Nations to Critique Israel?
- Extension of the Critique to Judah
- Binding the Three Nations Together
- Pollution of the House of Judah with Omride Blood
- Athaliah Paralleling Jezebel
- Other Comparisons of Judah with the House of Ahab
- The Damascus Altar
- Conclusion
- Chapter 8 Conclusion
- Evaluation
- Clustering of Seriocomic Features
- Accounting for Difficulties in the Text
- Coherence-Comparison with the Overall Theology of Kings
- Comparison with the Work of Other Scholars
- Humour in Kings?
- Is YHWH a Player in the Carnival?
- Potential Criticisms
- Could the Author have been this Subtle?
- Could the Author have Expected his Reader to be this Perceptive?
- Why has the Reading Remained Undetected Previously?
- Are the Features Just Indicative of Source Diversity?
- Concluding Remarks
- Appendix 1 The?-squared Test Applied to Rendsburg's Findings of Variant Linguistic Features in the Northern Narratives of Kings
- Appendix 2 Seriocomic Events of the Central Part of Kings, Itemised by Chapter
- Bibliography
- Index of Authorities
- Index of Biblical References
- Index of Subjects.