IRONY AND HUMOUR IN THE BIBLICAL CANON
IRONY AND HUMOUR IN THE BIBLICAL CANON

Summary/Abstract: The Old Testament word games and puns (over 500 in number), onomastic farces or riddles represent the expression of popular realism and categories of folklore-sourced comic, inherent in sacred writings as well. Measured and decent laughter remains a characteristic of normative humanity in the Holy Scripture. If Yahweh, the Old Testament God, had destroyed his opponents by laughing quietly at their powerless enmity, the Logos incarnate in history, the Christ of the New Covenant, is shown to people to be always subject to derision and deicidal mocking of the Jews or Romans. In general, it can be stated that the Holy Scripture is in this line in which the smile is the expression of a state of joy that characterizes the believer reconciled to God, as well as to his own conscience.

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