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2. The Bible and humor - Wikipedia

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   Sarah, 90 years old, hears that she will have a child, and laughs at the idea, from the Book of Genesis. James Tissot, c. 1900. The Bible and humor is a topic of Biblical criticism concerned with the question of whether parts of the Bible were intended to convey humor in any style. Historically, this topic has not received much attention, but ...

3. Religious satire - Wikipedia

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   Religious satire is a form of satire that refers to religious beliefs and can take the form of texts, plays, films, and parody. [6] From the earliest times, at least since the plays of Aristophanes , religion has been one of the three primary topics of literary satire, along with politics and sex.

4. Biblical genre - Wikipedia

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   A Biblical genre is a classification of Bible literature according to literary genre. [1] The genre of a particular Bible passage is ordinarily identified by analysis of its general writing style, tone, form, structure, literary technique, content, design, and related linguistic factors; texts that exhibit a common set of literary features (very often in keeping with the writing styles of the ...

5. Four senses of Scripture - Wikipedia

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   In Judaism, bible hermeneutics notably uses midrash, a Jewish method of interpreting the Hebrew Bible and the rules which structure the Jewish laws. [1] The early allegorizing trait in the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible figures prominently in the massive oeuvre of a prominent Hellenized Jew of Alexandria, Philo Judaeus, whose allegorical reading of the Septuagint synthesized the ...

6. Absalom and Achitophel - Wikipedia

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   John Dryden by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Absalom and Achitophel is a celebrated satirical poem by John Dryden, written in heroic couplets and first published in 1681. The poem tells the Biblical tale of the rebellion of Absalom against King David; in this context it is an allegory used to represent a story contemporary to Dryden, concerning King Charles II and the Exclusion Crisis (1679–1681).

7. On TikTok, 'satire' doesn't mean what you think it means - AOL

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   While the hashtag #satire (it has 3.2 billion views) is used constantly on the platform, . most of the videos in this category don't fall into the category of criticism or social commentary.