This is the second of my birthday books that I have now read (or almost read in this case). The great things about this book is that it is full of jokes. Some of these I would personally reject as unwholesome but there are not too many of these. Wilkens is a philospher but he attempts a general theology of humour and has some good things to say on the whole. He has read all the other books on this subject, it seems, and footnotes a number of these books. His subject is not humour in the Bible but he does include two interludes on Sarah and Esther and he inevitably touches on the subject. A very interesting read.
