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100 1  Jackson, Melissa A.|q(Melissa Anne),|d1971- 
245 10 Comedy and feminist interpretation of the Hebrew Bible :
       |ba subversive collaboration /|cMelissa A. Jackson 
250    1st ed 
260    Oxford :|bOxford University Press,|cc2012 
300    285 p. ;|c23 cm 
490 1  Oxford theological monographs 
504    Includes bibliographical references and indexes 
505 0  Contents: 1. An introduction to comedy -- 2. Trickster 
       matriarchs: Lot's daughters, Rebekah, Leah, Rachel, Tamar 
       -- 3. Five women of Moses' infancy: Shiphrah and Puah, 
       Moses' mother and sister, Pharaoh's daughter -- 4. Rahab -
       - 5. Deborah and Jael -- 6. Delilah -- 7. David's wives: 
       Michal, Abigail, Bathsheba -- 8. Jezebel -- 9. Ruth -- 10.
       Esther -- 11. Conclusions: comedy and Hebrew Bible -- 12. 
       Conclusions: comedy, the Hebrew Bible, and feminist 
       interpretation 
520    Exploring the Hebrew Bible for evidence of comedy, this 
       volume further asks how reading the Hebrew Bible through a
       comic 'lens' might positively inform feminist 
       interpretation. The exploration is conducted with a number
       of Hebrew Bible narratives, all of which prominently 
       involve female characters 
630 00 Bible.|pO.T.|xFeminist criticism 
650  0 Wit and humor in the Bible 
650  0 Women in the Bible 
650  0 Bible and feminism 
830  0 Oxford theological monographs