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Was God being ironic in commanding Eve never to eat fruits from the tree of intelligence? Carolyn J. Clear shows that many tales in the Hebrew Scriptures may be ironically expected. Deftly interweaving literary theory and exegesis, Clear illumines the power of the unspoken in a multitude of text messages from the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Writings. She argues that reading with irony at heart creates a incurred and available rhetorical space in the text messages that allows character, narration, and authorial tone to develop in surprising ways.Main themes or templates explored here include the ironizing of international rulers, the prostitute as icon of the ironic gaze, indeterminacy and remarkable irony in prophetic performance, and irony in ancient Israel's wisdom customs. Clear devotes special focus on how irony destabilizes dominating ways in which the Bible is read today, specially when it touches on questions of conflict, gender, and the other.Posted by Indiana College or university Press.
