Athalya Brenner, editor of the Bible in the 21st Century series, is Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the University of Amsterdam and the Rosalyn & Manny Rosenthal Distinguished Professor-in-Residence of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School, Texas.

"This volume deals with humor about women. The author asks: Is this humor really funny, or is it demeaning? Might we have missed humor by reading some stories too seriously?... This fine book will be of interest to a wide audience."- The Bible Today, January/ February 2006

• Athalya Brenner, Introduction; I Essays; Scott Spencer, Those Riotous (yet Righteous) Women in Jesus' Past: Exploring Matthew's Comic Genealogy; Mary E. Shields, 'More Righteous than I': The Comeuppance of the Trickster in Genesis 38; Kathleen M. O'Connor, Humor, Turnabouts, and Survival in the Book of Esther; Toni Craven, Is that fearfully funny? Some Instances from the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books; Kathy Williams, At the Expense of Women: Humor(?) in Acts 16: 14-40; Athalya Brenner, Are We Amused? Some Female Figurations in Josephus Flavius; Gale A. Yee, Ooooh, Onan! Geschlechtsgeschicte and Women in the Biblical World. II Responses; A.-J. Levine, Esther Fuchs, Laughing With/At/As Women: How Should We Read Biblical Humor? Appendix: Babble/Bible Light: On Some Biblical Women

Athalya Brenner, editor of the Bible in the 21st Century series, is Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the University of Amsterdam and the Rosalyn & Manny Rosenthal Distinguished Professor-in-Residence of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School, Texas.

"This volume deals with humor about women. The author asks: Is this humor really funny, or is it demeaning? Might we have missed humor by reading some stories too seriously?... This fine book will be of interest to a wide audience."- The Bible Today, January/ February 2006

• Athalya Brenner, Introduction; I Essays; Scott Spencer, Those Riotous (yet Righteous) Women in Jesus' Past: Exploring Matthew's Comic Genealogy; Mary E. Shields, 'More Righteous than I': The Comeuppance of the Trickster in Genesis 38; Kathleen M. O'Connor, Humor, Turnabouts, and Survival in the Book of Esther; Toni Craven, Is that fearfully funny? Some Instances from the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books; Kathy Williams, At the Expense of Women: Humor(?) in Acts 16: 14-40; Athalya Brenner, Are We Amused? Some Female Figurations in Josephus Flavius; Gale A. Yee, Ooooh, Onan! Geschlechtsgeschicte and Women in the Biblical World. II Responses; A.-J. Levine, Esther Fuchs, Laughing With/At/As Women: How Should We Read Biblical Humor? Appendix: Babble/Bible Light: On Some Biblical Women

Athalya Brenner, editor of the Bible in the 21st Century series, is Professor of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament at the University of Amsterdam and the Rosalyn & Manny Rosenthal Distinguished Professor-in-Residence of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School, Texas.

"This volume deals with humor about women. The author asks: Is this humor really funny, or is it demeaning? Might we have missed humor by reading some stories too seriously?... This fine book will be of interest to a wide audience."- The Bible Today, January/ February 2006

• Athalya Brenner, Introduction; I Essays; Scott Spencer, Those Riotous (yet Righteous) Women in Jesus' Past: Exploring Matthew's Comic Genealogy; Mary E. Shields, 'More Righteous than I': The Comeuppance of the Trickster in Genesis 38; Kathleen M. O'Connor, Humor, Turnabouts, and Survival in the Book of Esther; Toni Craven, Is that fearfully funny? Some Instances from the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books; Kathy Williams, At the Expense of Women: Humor(?) in Acts 16: 14-40; Athalya Brenner, Are We Amused? Some Female Figurations in Josephus Flavius; Gale A. Yee, Ooooh, Onan! Geschlechtsgeschicte and Women in the Biblical World. II Responses; A.-J. Levine, Esther Fuchs, Laughing With/At/As Women: How Should We Read Biblical Humor? Appendix: Babble/Bible Light: On Some Biblical Women