Acknowledgements
Note on translation and transliteration
Introduction: an anatomy of comedy in the Bible
Part I. The Genesis of Comedy - The Comedy of Genesis: 1. The comedy of creation
2. Domestic comedy in the household of faith: Israel's fathers and mothers as comic figures
Part II. Generating Comedy: Biblical texts and the drive to comic regeneration: 3. Liberation and laughter: Exodus and Esther as two comedies of deliverance
4. Jonah as joke: a comedy of contradiction, caricature and compassion
5. The comedy of Job: creation, chaos and carnival
6. Paradox and parody in the Song of Soloman: towards a comic reading of the Song of Songs
Conclusion: towards a comprehensive view of biblical comedy
Bibliography
Indexes.
