Any jokes in The Bible?

[Hometownboy]

Years ago I toyed with the idea of making a set of Bible cards with some of the twistier bits of Good Book featured. They would include the she-bears tearing to bits the kids who mocked Elisha for his baldness, Lot offering the mob his two virgin daughters if they’ll stop banging on the door and give him some peace. and this one, from Exodus:

21 And the LORD said, Behold, there is a place by me, and thou shalt stand upon a rock: 22 And it shall come to pass, while my glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a clift of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by: 23 And I will take away mine hand, and thou shalt see my back parts: but my face shall not be seen.

The title: God moons Moses

Bad, bad Hometownboy…

[Zahava424]

@Fabulous Creature

One character of children’s author Madeleine L’Engle claims that the book of Jonah is a comedy. I was taken aback when I first read this assertion until I thought about it…now I read the story’s of Jonah’s travails for giggles.

I remember that! That was in Ring of Endless Light! I loved that book when I was 11.

[Malacandra]

@bup

There’s some thought that the magi were ironically named. After all, they told Herod where the Christ child was :smack: , and were following a star that wandered (maybe they were too dumb to realize they were following Venus, which is often in the west in the early evening).

They’d have had to be really idiotic for that; and you’d think Judea would have been arse-deep in confused magi year in, year out. An amusing mental picture maybe, but something less than plausible.