Are there any jokes in the bible?

The whole bible is a joke.

The biggest bible joke is the NT. Especially as the believers cannot understand what is meant by such things as; My times has not yet come; the one who sent me; the son of man; the son of god. If they understood ancient history they might have a chance to learn the meanings. Then they would not have to be fooled anymore.

There's certainly one pun, in Judges 10:3-4: "After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years. And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys, and they had thirty cities, called Havvoth-jair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead." In Hebrew, the word for "donkeys" and the word for "cities" happen to be the same.

I know of one translation (from the Jewish Publications Society) which has managed to reproduce this pun in English, using "burros" and "boroughs": "After him arose Jair the Gileadite, and he led Israel for twenty-two years. (He had thirty sons, who rode on thirty burros and owned thirty boroughs in the region of Gilead; these are called Havvoth-jair to this day.)"

On a more general note, at least one Christian theologian has argued that much of the Bible uses humor to convey its message:

Remember the stories your parents told you about what it was like when they were growing up and how hard they worked? Now remember the stories your grandparents told you about what your parents really did when they were growing up. Both parents and grandparents tell stories, but the content varies: Parents tend to clean up their stories; grandparents tell stories that are more truthful and have many rough edges. Parental stories are solemn and can kill by prescribing an ideal we cannot fulfull, but grandparent stories are humorous and give hope and life by sharing a reality similar to our own.

Biblical stories are like grandparent stories. Jesus, Paul, and the Hebrew scriptures tell stories that include rough edges—unethical or ambiguous characters, unresolved or surprising endings—and so we laugh and know that we and others may live through the rough times in our lives, too. Biblical stories present patriarchs, matriarchs, and disciples not as perfectly faithful and ethical persons whom we could not hope to emulate but, rather, as persons who are often immoral, unfaithful, and thickheaded. Therefore, in spite of our own failings, we, too, can hope to be disciples.

-- Douglas Adams (not the SF writer); "The Prostitute in the Family Tree: Discovering Humor and Irony in the Bible"

There's that knee-slapper about Ehud and Eglon. Toilet humor at that.

James Tiberius Troll

Many and I had a collection of books on that topic by Cormier and Youngblood etc.

No.

From the Start to the end.

The entire book is a joke!

Go read the jokes the CIP, and Dale? Or those of Uncle Cup of the cut sweet which is better!

Start to finish, the joke is on anyone afraid, or gullible enough to believe that tripe. But half of it is true, as it contradicts everything it says. It is right and wrong on everything it comments about.