Reduced laughter: seriocomic features and their functions in the Book of Kings
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | IX, 242 Seiten |
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| adam_text | Contents
Acknowledgements xi
List of Figures xn
List of Abbreviations xi 11
Miscellaneous Conventions xiv
1 Introduction 1
Humorous Genres within the Bible? 2
Humour, Truth and Gravity 3
How we Read the Bible 5
Outline of the Investigation 10
2 Some Unanswered Questions in the Book of Kings 13
The Interplay of Diachronic and Synchronic Approaches to
the Text 13
Methodological Decisions 15
The Central Portion of Kings 17
Enigma: The Ethical Content of the Prophets Actions 17
Enigma: The Prominence of Israel and the Peculiar Privilege of
Aram 22
Enigma: The Command-Prophecy Formula in 1 Kings 19:15-17 24
Conclusion 29
3 Seriocomic Readings and the Mise-en-abyme: Useful Heuristics for
Biblical Criticism? 30
Introduction to the Life and Work of Bakhtin 30
Bakh tin and the Dialogical Novel 32
Bakhtin and Carnival 36
Menippean Satire 41
Transferability to the Bible? 44
Polyphony and the Hebrew Bible 45
Carnival and the Hebrew Bible 49
Biblical Scholarship and Bakhtin 52
Towards a Diagnostic Heuristic 57
Mise-en-abyme 62
4 An Investigation into the Seriocomic Elements at the Heart of Kings 64
Francisco Garcia-Treto on Jehu 64
VIII
CONTENTS
Examining for Diagnostic Features of the Seriocomic Genre 67
Violation of Linguistic Norms 67
Inversion of Hierarchy and Reversals 81
Masking and Foolery 92
Feasting 106
Transgression of Bodily Barriers and the Grotesque 110
Profanation of the Sacred 112
Fantasticality 113
Comparison with Similar Passages in the Rest of Kings 115
Comparison with Parallel Passages in Chronicles 121
Conclusion 122
5 Anti-prophetic Rhetoric 124
The Prophets of Baal 125
False Prophets of yhwh 127
Elijah 128
Elijah’s Self-pity? 129
Elijah’s Hubris ? 131
Elisha 133
The Word of yhwh and the Prophet 133
The Magic of the Man of God? 136
Elisha s Reputation 137
The Lying Prophet? 139
The Irony of the Bears 140
Satire of the Shunammite 141
Naaman and the Servants 142
Evidence for an Anti-prophetic Satire 144
6 The Command-Prophecy Formula 149
Establishing an Inclusio 150
Crowning-decrowning 151
Limits of the Central Section 156
Setting Up a Parallelism 156
7 Satire against Kings and Nations 158
Critique of Aram Mirrored upon Israel 158
The Wise and Foolish Kings 158
The Blinding oftheAramean Soldiers and the Siege of
Samaria 167
Use of Pagan Nations to Critique Israel? 170
CONTENTS
IX
Extension of the Critique to Judah 171
Binding the Three Nations Together 171
Pollution of the House of Judah with Omride Blood ij2,
Athaliah Paralleling Jezebel 174
Other Comparisons of Judah with the House ofAhab 175
The Damascus Altar 178
Conclusion 180
8 Conclusion 183
Evaluation 184
Clustering of Seriocomic Features 185
Accounting for Difficulties in the Text 187
Coherence—Comparison with the Overall Theology of Kings 189
Comparison with the Work of Other Scholars 192
Humour in Kings? 193
Is yhwh a Player in the Carnival? 194
Potential Criticisms 197
Could the Author have been this Subtle? 197
Could the Author have Expected his Reader to be this
Perceptive? 199
Why has the Reading Remained Undetected Previously? 200
Are the Features Just Indicative of Source Diversity? 201
Concluding Remarks 202
Appendix 1: The x-squared Test Applied to Rendsburg s Findings of
Variant Linguistic Features in the Northern Narratives of Kings 203
Appendix 2: Seriocomic Events of the Central Part of Kings, Itemised by
Chapter 206
Bibliography 210
Index of Authorities 227
Index of Biblical References 230
Index of Subj ects 237
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