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*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. When pollsters for Harris Interactive asked Americans last year to name their favorite book of all time, there weren't a lot of ...
Like many Americans, Bill Cosby owns multiple Bibles — eight, in fact. And, like many Americans, he doesn’t read any of them regularly. But for a half-century or more, Cosby’s been looking for funny ...
ROME - Humor in the Bible? Scholars say the Old and New Testament are riddled with humorous references and clever wordplay and aim to set the record straight at a three-day congress that began Monday, ...
NEW YORK — Although comedian David Tuchman was raised a nice Jewish boy in an Orthodox New York city home, his comedy series OMGWTFBible is anything but reverent — or orthodox. For the past two years, ...
The Arkansas Times’ staff theologian, Bob Lancaster, contributed his own take on the question of humor in the Bible. There are no jokes in the Bible. You could argue that it’s all one big Joke but ...
David Plotz was a not-very-observant Jew who had spent three decades largely avoiding the Bible until one day when, bored at a cousin's bat mitzvah, he began thumbing through a copy of the Torah.
Funny thing, the Bible. Funny peculiar, not funny 'haha'. In fact, it is the glaring lack of 'haha' that makes it so peculiar. There is almost no humour in the Tanakh and New Testament. The Old ...