The aim of the article is to examine the meaning of references to laughter in the Synoptic Gospels and a number of Gnostic texts. Whereas Jesus is depicted as an object of ridicule (Mk 5:40 par.) and as condemning those who laugh in the Synoptic Gospels (Lk 6:25), it is he who often laughs derisively at the ignorance of others in Gnostic texts. The meaning of laughter in the Synoptic Gospels and a number of Gnostic texts is examined in the light of the general Greco-Roman attitude towards laughter and, more specifically, in regard to the archetypical distinction between playful and consequential laughter in Greek culture
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The aim of the article is to examine the meaning of references to laughter in the Synoptic Gospels a...
The aim of the article is to examine the meaning of references to laughter in the Synoptic Gospels a...
Since the rise of biblical criticism, there has been a steady stream of scholarship exploring the po...
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Humor is an integral part of society. The idea that humor and laughter are good for one’s health and...
The subject of laughter does not surface often in the Bible, yet when we take Scripture in the fulln...
This essay examines the healing miracles of Jesus as described by the Synoptic Gospels and posits th...
In 2001, two prominent Anglican pastors caused consternation by publishing parodic versions of the L...
My article has as its starting point the well-known ancient satirical work, L. Annaeus Seneca’s Divi...
Article reviews the book, Telling Tales about Jesus: An Introduction to the New Testament Gospels, b...
This graduation theses disserts upon humour phenomenon and its place in the christian tradition. Fir...
There was a time when priests started cracking jokes, telling anecdotes, speaking in an obscene mann...
The aim of the article is to examine the meaning of references to laughter in the Synoptic Gospels a...
The aim of the article is to examine the meaning of references to laughter in the Synoptic Gospels a...
Since the rise of biblical criticism, there has been a steady stream of scholarship exploring the po...
Excerpt: Do you think God laughs? Do you think God weeps? These are hard questions to answer with a...
One of the most radical heresies of early Christianity, Docetism, maintained that Jesus did not real...
A serious reader might, one day, discover that not everything he reads in “the Good Book ” is holy. ...
This article asks how the New Comedy of Menander might have influenced Paul\u27s theological rhetori...
Humor is an integral part of society. The idea that humor and laughter are good for one’s health and...
The subject of laughter does not surface often in the Bible, yet when we take Scripture in the fulln...
This essay examines the healing miracles of Jesus as described by the Synoptic Gospels and posits th...
In 2001, two prominent Anglican pastors caused consternation by publishing parodic versions of the L...
My article has as its starting point the well-known ancient satirical work, L. Annaeus Seneca’s Divi...
Article reviews the book, Telling Tales about Jesus: An Introduction to the New Testament Gospels, b...
This graduation theses disserts upon humour phenomenon and its place in the christian tradition. Fir...
There was a time when priests started cracking jokes, telling anecdotes, speaking in an obscene mann...