God laughed sources of Jewish humor First Issued In Paperback Edition by Hershey Friedman ISBN 1412853761 978-1412853767

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ISBN 10: 1412853761

ISBN 13:  978-1412853767

Author: Hershey H. Friedman

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.

Table of contents: 

1 Preface
2 Acknowledgements

Part I: Introduction
3 Studying Jewish Humor
4 A Word on the Sources: Biblical, Talmudic, and Midrashic Literature

Part II: Heavenly Humor
5 Does God Have a Sense of Humor?
6 Biblical Humor: From Irony, Sarcasm, Wordplay to Humorous Imagery
7 No Match for God: Satan as Trickster

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

Part IV: Conclusion
18 Is There a Jewish Sense of Humor?

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