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- Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation
- Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Cover
- Introduction
- 1 Backgrounds, Backdrops, and Other Important Starting Points
- 2 Survival of the Humorist: Reading for Trauma, Reading for Humor
- 3 The Comic Truth: Claiming a Jewish Cultural Self through Humor
- 4 The Trick Revealed
- 5 I Pledge Allegiance to the Lamb
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - The Trick Revealed
A Dragon, Two Beasts, and a Whore Walk into the Bible
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2019
- Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation
- Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of Revelation
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Cover
- Introduction
- 1 Backgrounds, Backdrops, and Other Important Starting Points
- 2 Survival of the Humorist: Reading for Trauma, Reading for Humor
- 3 The Comic Truth: Claiming a Jewish Cultural Self through Humor
- 4 The Trick Revealed
- 5 I Pledge Allegiance to the Lamb
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The fourth chapter is a continuation of the third. Instead of focusing on local adversaries, however, I read with the grain of the text to suggest that the Apocalypse’s humor continues through its representations of Empire and imperial rulers.
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- Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of RevelationRoasting Rome, pp. 126 - 166Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020