From: Jonathan Robie (jonathan@texcel.no)
Date: Thu Feb 05 1998 - 09:03:10 EST
At 09:08 AM 2/5/98 GMT, Mark Goodacre wrote:
>I am delighted to see that someone else finds this funny. I often
>ask students whether they find sayings like this funny and they
>generally react with astonishment at the very idea that Jesus / the
>Gospels / the Bible could be funny. One said to me last year "It
>stands to reason that Jesus was not a comedian, doesn't it?"
Here's a good little book on the subject:
Humor of Christ
by Elton Trueblood
Paperback, 128 pages
Published by Harper San Francisco
Publication date: July 1, 1979
ISBN: 0060686324
I haven't read it in 20 years, but I really enjoyed it back then...
Jonathan
jonathan@texcel.no
Texcel Research
http://www.texcel.no
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