Book contents
- 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
5 - I Pledge Allegiance to the Lamb
Humor, Hybridity, and a Reading against the Gaze
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 December 2019
Book contents
- 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
Chapter 5 offers a reading against the grain. Here, I take a step back from analyzing Revelation’s local and global adversaries to consider one of its primary heroes, the Christ/Lamb, focusing on his simultaneous rejection of Empire and appropriation of Empire’s androcentric, patriarchal, and violent ideologies.
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- Humor, Resistance, and Jewish Cultural Persistence in the Book of RevelationRoasting Rome, pp. 167 - 200Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020