Irony in the Bible

Between Subversion and Innovation
Erscheinungsjahr 2023
ISBN: 978-90-04-53632-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 209, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 239 mm x 162 mm, Gewicht: 748 g

Reihe: Biblical Interpretation Series

It 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Häner, Tobias

Miller, Virginia

Sharp, Carolyn J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

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

Über Autor(innen)

Tobias Häner, Dr. theol. (2013), is assistant professor of Old Testament at the Cologne University of Catholic Theology (KHKT). Among his main research areas are the Book of Job and the Book of Ezekiel (Bleibendes Nachwirken des Exils. Untersuchung zur kanonischen Endgestalt des Ezechielbuches, Herder 2014).

Virginia Miller, Ph.D. (2016) is a research fellow at the Centre for Religion, Ethics and Society, Charles Sturt University, Canberra, and a STD candidate at the Gregorian University, Rome. She is the author of A King and a Fool? The Succession Narrative as a Satire (2019).

Carolyn J. Sharp, Ph.D. (2000), Yale University, is Professor of Homiletics at Yale Divinity School. She has authored seven books, including Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible (2009), a commentary on Joshua (2019), and a commentary on Jeremiah 26–52 (2022).