Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: mshobohm@immd4.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Matthias Hobohm) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Humour in the bible (was Re: Hell) Message-ID: Date: 26 May 91 07:14:08 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, Germany Lines: 25 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu I found a special sense of humour in the bible: the relationship between visions and language One Example is jeremiah 1,11 & 12 were the prophet "sees" a rod of an almond tree. This is a hebrew language game. Or Isiah 28:10 which is normally untranslated "zaw la zaw kaw la kaw" . some versions translate it somehow, which makes it less funny. Or acts 2,4 : when the holy spirit came people had a vision of "cloven tongues like fire" . The tongues symbolizes the new languages in which they began to speak, they had the same word for it. Other forms of humour in the bible: Matthew 22:20 where Jesus decided from the image of the coin, to whom it belongs. Or as a bad example: Rev 10:4 where the prophet gets a great revelation of 7 thunders, but was not allowed to write down what they said. Funny also the idea to eat a book or a roll instead of reading it. (Rev 10:9,Ez 3,2+3 ) Or Ez 3,14 where the prophet was flying by the spirit, but did not feel very well, and said " the hand of th LORD was strong upon him" --- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | Matthias Hobohm (Universitaet Erlangen, Informatik, Germany) | | mshobohm@immd3.informatik.uni-erlangen.de | -----------------------------------------------------------------------