Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: xerox@cs.vu.nl (J. A. Durieux) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Humour in the bible (was Re: Hell) Message-ID: Date: 3 Jun 91 04:58:42 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Lines: 18 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) writes: >Another way that I sometimes see humor in the Bible is in >retelling the story and imagining the details which were left >out. (...) Or the ones that were left *in*! Ezechiel 4. Here God order Ezechiel to lay down for more than a year, looking standfastly to a maquette of Jerusalem, during which he was allowed to turn on his other side only once (God roped him up to make this "easier"), eating only some enriched bread and drinking water, baking that bread on human excrements. Of course Ezechiel gets quite upset at the prospect, and starts pleading, after which God makes the burden lighter: he is allowed to use cattle manure instead of human excrements! Boy will Ezechiel have been happy at the prospect now!