The God worshipped by Jews and Christians has been described as powerful, mighty, creator, emancipator, savior.  He has been seen as merciful, as vengeful, as omniscient, as omnipresent, as eternal. He has not often been described as as funny. We know that humor and irony were used by the writers of the Hebrew Bible.  Hershey Friedman and Linda Friedman, in their paper, “Humor of the Hebrew Bible,” cite several examples of how humor was used by the Bible authors.  They... Read more