Download or read book The Laughter of Sarah written by C. Conybeare and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The laughter of delight has gone unheard in the Western tradition. This work brings new light to the notion, and has a consistent leitmotif: the delighted laughter of the matriarch Sarah in the book of Genesis, when she gives birth to her son Isaac. This laughter is "heard" through biblical commentaries and twentieth-century theorists of laughter.