Floris Bernard
List of John Benjamins publications for which Floris Bernard plays a role.
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2022 “This joke has gone on for long enough”: Humour, derision, and allusion in the letters of Gregory of Nazianzus Humour in the Beginning: Religion, humour and laughter in formative stages of Christianity, Islam, Buddhism and Judaism, Dijkstra, Roald and Paul van der Velde (eds.), pp. 64–80 | Chapter
Gregory of Nazianzus is one of the foundational theologians of Eastern Christianity, greatly contributing to the development of an authoritative body of texts that is generally averse to humour. Due to this, he is generally not read with humoristic interests in mind. Yet, his letters are a genre… read more