5 Minute Bible

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Humour elsewhere

For those of you feeling deprived of no new episodes added to the humour in the Bible series, while you are waiting, you can head over to two posts of Lingamish's which elicited quite an array of candidates. First was Whoa to you who laugh and then incorrigibly followed by Funny Stuff in the Bible a short post with a long tail!

Labels: humour

Thursday, June 14, 2007

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.

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Labels: esther, humour

Tuesday, May 1, 2007

Jonah: Thoroughly fishy!

Spotting the exaggerations and humour in the book can help us understand, but it also acts as a warning!

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Labels: genre, humour, jonah

Friday, April 20, 2007

Humour in the Bible: Part 2: Still Introducing Saul

Here's a second instalment of Saul's introduction... if when you are listening you have a Bible handy, open it to 1 Sam 9:11ff.

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Labels: 1 sam, humour, narrative

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Humour in the Bible: Part 1: Introducing Saul

This is the first of what might need to be a long series! Just to do justice to the introduction of Saul in 1 Sam 9 I'll need at least 2 posts...

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Labels: 1 sam, humour, narrative