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  2. The Bible and humor - Wikipedia

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    Those scholars who do find humor in the Bible agree the odd, awkward, or absurd such as mismatches in character and actions, are examples of how the Bible uses humor. " Balaam the 'seer' who doesn't 'see' or 'know' what's going on, and his donkey who both sees and knows," is an example of this type of wit and humor in the Bible.

  3. Religious satire - Wikipedia

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    The Brick Testament, a project in which the stories of the Bible are illustrated with Lego. Purim Torah, traditional parodies of Jewish life written out, and/or acted out, for the holiday of Purim. "Sheep" by progressive rock band Pink Floyd includes a humorous version of Psalm 23.

  4. Parable of the drowning man - Wikipedia

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    Two boats and a helicopter, the instruments of rescue most frequently cited in the parable, during a coastguard rescue demonstration. The parable of the drowning man, also known as Two Boats and a Helicopter, is a short story, often told as a joke, most often about a devoutly Christian man, frequently a minister, who refuses several rescue ...

  5. Jewish humor - Wikipedia

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    The tradition of humor in Judaism dates back to the compilation of the Torah and the Midrash in the ancient Middle East, but the most famous form of Jewish humor consists of the more recent stream of verbal and frequently anecdotal humor of Ashkenazi Jews which took root in the United States during the last one hundred years, it even took root ...

  6. Talk:The Bible and humor - Wikipedia

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    Those scholars who do find humor in the Bible agree the odd, awkward, or absurd such as mismatches in character and actions, are examples of how the Bible uses humor: "like Balaam the 'seer' who doesn't 'see' or 'know' what's going on, and his donkey who both sees and knows," are this type of wit and humor found in the Bible.[10]:8" Gråbergs ...

  7. Humorism - Wikipedia

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    The word humor is a translation of Greek χυμός, chymos (literally 'juice' or 'sap', metaphorically 'flavor'). Early texts on Indian Ayurveda medicine presented a theory of three humors (doṣas), which they sometimes linked with the five elements (pañca-bhūta): earth, water, fire, air, and space.

  8. Divine Comedy - Wikipedia

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    Divine Comedy at Wikisource. The Divine Comedy ( Italian: Divina Commedia [diˈviːna komˈmɛːdja]) is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed around 1321, shortly before the author's death. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature [1] and one of the greatest works of Western ...

  9. Allegorical interpretation of the Bible - Wikipedia

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    Allegorical interpretation of the Bible is an interpretive method that assumes that the Bible has various levels of meaning and tends to focus on the spiritual sense, which includes the allegorical sense, the moral (or tropological) sense, and the anagogical sense, as opposed to the literal sense.

  10. Category:Religious comedy and humour - Wikipedia

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    The Bible and humor This page was last edited on 7 March 2020, at 18:33 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4. ...

  11. Bible - Wikipedia

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    The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms ...