Archive for the ‘Esther’ Category

  • Humour in the Bible: book 17: Esther

    Jun 22, 11 • Esther, HumourComments Off on Humour in the Bible: book 17: Esther
    Humour in the Bible: book 17: Esther

    I have argued before that Esther is full of sexual and/or gendered humour, but that was before I took the topic of humour in the Bible (documents from very different cultural contexts from ours) seriously. Now however I have nine criteria to measure whether it is likely that authors intended the humour we find. These [&hellip...

  • Sexual humour in Esther

    Jun 14, 07 • Esther, Humour, Sex1 Comment
    Sexual humour in Esther

    The book of Esther tells a terrible story, of attempted genocide averted. Too often Christian readers miss the humour in the story, of course some of it is sex related, and/or poking fun at gender expectations, so perhaps there are reasons for the blindness.  ...