Travis West

Biblical Humor and Performance

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“So often books about humor end up being humorless attempts to overexplain the joke—especially when written by biblical scholars! This volume is nothing like that. The essays in Peter Perry’s collection deftly pair right-sized analysis with keen insights into how humor functions in biblical texts and their performance. The result is as perceptive as it is playful. With this volume, biblical performance criticism has taken an important step forward.”