"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"--
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.
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 1516
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
38,139,30)
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 Ezekiels 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 1013
Matthew Pawlak
Index of Subjects
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 2652 (2022).
