The Bible as Comedy: Humour as Hope - Softcover

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This book is invaluable for the preacher and those who enjoy seeing the Bible and its stories with fresh eyes. Though it may make you smile, it is not a joke book, but rather 350 pages of serious exegesis. Comedy in the title is used in the Greek sense, as being the opposite of tragedy. The Bible bristles with humour: ambiguity, badinage, euphemism, insult, irony, satire and wit. It was written by theologians with a sense of humour, but is too often interpreted by those without. The Bible as Comedy attempts to put that right, but this is not a joke book. Though it may make you smile, it is The rich humour of the Hebrew Scriptures is taken up by Jesus as he expounds the mystery of the upside-down, wrong way-round, comic Kingdom of God. Canon Albert Radcliffe is a retired Canon Residentiary of Manchester Cathedral, England. He grew up in Bootle, Liverpool during WWII, where he learned that humour defies and humour re-deems. In 1962 he was ordained Deacon, in Berkeley, California, and served his first curacy in England's capital of comedy, Knotty Ash. From 1966-69 he was British Chaplain in Haifa, Israel. He was there during the Six Day War, a high point of comedy's on-going opposite, tragedy. His time in Israel prepared him for his later role of Chair of the Manchester branch of the Council of Christians and Jews. This is an organisation which seeks to reconcile Jews and Christians by redeeming them from the tragic story of Christian contempt. This is how history becomes comedy, with its All's well that ends well.

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