Alkitab dan humor: Perbedaan antara revisi

Profesor agama dan pendeta Presbiterian [[:en:Conrad Hyers|Conrad Hyers]] melihat adanya humor dalam ejekan Elia kepada "para imam Baal yang meratapi dan menyembelih diri mereka sendiri dengan harapan agar Baal mengirimkan api dari Sorga". Elia antara lain mengatakan: "Panggillah lebih keras!...Mungkin ia merenung, mungkin ada urusannya, mungkin ia bepergian; barangkali ia tidur, dan belum terjaga." ([[1 Raja-raja 18]])<ref name="M.Conrad Hyers">{{cite book| last =Hyers|first=M. Conrad| title=And God Created Laughter: The Bible as Divine Comedy| url =https://archive.org/details/andgodcreatedlau0000hyer|date=1987|publisher=John Knox Press|location= Atlanta, Georgia|isbn=978-0-8042-1653-1}}</ref>{{rp|7}}

Alkitab telah menginspirasi sejumlah karya seni dan fiksi dalam banyak kategori, termasuk humor dan komedi. Karya komedi [[William Shakespeare]] ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' memasukkan unsur-unsur dari [[Kitab Daniel]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=0kpdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA194&dq=%22The+Merchant+of+Venice%22+Balthazar+Belshazzar#v=onepage&q=%22The+Merchant+of+Venice%22+Balthazar+Belshazzar&f=false|title=The Merchant of Venice: Choice, Hazard and Consequence|date=8 February 1995|publisher=Macmillan International Higher Education|page=194|accessdate=7 September 2018|via=Google Books|isbn=9781349238460}}{{Pranala mati|date=Juli 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> Rujukan-rujukan Alkitab dapat terlihat dalam film-film yang dibintangi oleh [[Charlie Chaplin]] serta [[Laurel dan Hardy]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=MtcXDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA265&dq=%22charlie+chaplin%22+biblical#v=onepage&q=chaplin&f=false|title=The Bible in Motion: A Handbook of the Bible and Its Reception in Film|first=Rhonda|last=Burnette-Bletsch|date=12 September 2016|publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG|page=254|accessdate=21 September 2018|via=Google Books|isbn=9781614513261}}</ref>

Contoh-contoh modern yang mengkaitkan Alkitab dengan humor antara lain adalah film ''[[Life of Brian]]'' karya [[Monty Python]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=WnApCgAAQBAJ&dq=%22life+of+brian%22+bible|title=Jesus and Brian: Exploring the Historical Jesus and his Times via Monty Python's Life of Brian|first=Joan E.|last=Taylor|date=10 September 2015|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|accessdate=19 September 2018|via=Google Books|isbn=9780567658296}}</ref> ''[[:en:History of the World, Part I|History of the World, Part I]]'' karya [[Mel Brooks]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.atimes.com/article/why-cant-muslims-laugh-at-mohammed/|title=Why can't Muslims laugh at Mohammed?|publisher=|accessdate=20 September 2018|archive-date=2019-01-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121130603/http://www.atimes.com/article/why-cant-muslims-laugh-at-mohammed/|dead-url=yes}}</ref> dan sketsa-sketsa karya [[Rowan Atkinson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/dec/16/rowan-atkinson-comic-relief-complaints-archbishop-canterbury|title=Rowan Atkinson Comic Relief sketch prompts most complaints in 2013|first=Mark|last=Sweney|date=16 December 2013|website=the Guardian|accessdate=19 September 2018}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/?id=EmEHCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA244&dq=%22rowan+atkinson%22+bible+sketches#v=onepage&q=%22rowan+atkinson%22+bible+sketches&f=false|title=Discourses in Co(n)text: The Many Faces of Specialised Discourse|date=1 April 2015|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|page=244|accessdate=19 September 2018|via=Google Books|isbn=9781443878838}}</ref>