Is there any holy book that contains an intentionally humorous passage?
I suspect not. It just doesn’t seem to fit. I mean what if when Abraham was asked to sacrifice Isaac, Abraham said, “You’re kidding, right?” Or if Job had said, “Hey I can take a joke as well as the next guy, but this has gotten way out of hand.” Or if Noah had asked, “Do we have to include rats and mosquitoes?” God apparently has no sense of humor and would have not looked favorably on such comments.
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When donkey was given speech and talked to it’s abusive owner.
In firefox, type about:mozilla in the awesomebar and you’ll be able to tea some of the ancient mozilla scriptures. They are quite humorous.
@pete, I looked through the examples. Well maybe, but I will have to think about it.
The entire book of Jonah in the Hebrew Bible is humorous. For example, in chapter three, after Jonah preaches a particularly crappy prophetic message (“Yet forty days and Nineveh will be destroyed”—purposefully leaving out why, who is threatening, if there’s a way to escape, etc.), the entire city repents. What makes this extra funny is that even the animals dress up in sackcloth. Animals in sackcloth? Sounds like a rock group.
Another really funny book is Esther. It begins with a 180 day long party and there are parties through the rest of it. Probably the funniest part is when Haman (the bad guy) who has tried to get Mordecai (the good guy) executed, is forced to honor Mordecai with a parade through the city. Subsequently, Haman is impaled on the 80 foot high spike he had prepared for Mordecai.
One more: Genesis 30: Rachel and Leah duke it out with a baby war, each woman trying to produce more babies for Jacob. At one point, Leah’s son, Reuben, finds mandrakes in a field. Mandrakes were considered an aphrodisiac. Rachel finds this out and asks Leah for some of the mandrakes. When Leah balks, Rachel says, “If you give me some mandrakes, you can sleep with Jacob tonight.” Leah agrees, and when Jacob comes home she says, “You have to sleep with me tonight because I’ve hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” She conceives and names the child “Issachar” which means “hired one.”
In Matthew 16:18, Jesus made a pun.
And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church…
The name “Peter” is related to the word for “rock” – so the whole Papacy is based on a joke Jesus made. :)
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