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The humor of Christ: a significant but often..

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In THE HUMOR OF CHRIST Dr. Trueblood boldly challenges the traditional stereotype of a somber, gloomy Christ-a Christ who never laughed or even smiled. It proceeds with scholarly precision, using apt passages from Christ's teachings, to project for the reader a startlingly unfamiliar image of a Christ who often laughed and often turned the provocative thrust of a rapier wit toward the proud, the pompous, the over-righteous. In the final chapters he examines in detail the humor that Illuminates the famous parables, the brief sayings of Christ, and the records of events of that time. Dr. Trueblood further asserts that:

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232.904 TRU h

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New York : Harper & Row., 1964

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125p.; 21 cm.

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English

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232.904

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JESUS CHRIST, TEACHER

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