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Unlike a satire, a parody may twist its source not in order to ridicule it but as an act of homage that reinscribes the very text it subverts. A parody of a sacred text, correspondingly, may be a way of keeping faith, as David Roskies puts it, through “disrupt[ing] the received order of the text in the same way as the enemy, acting at the behest of God, has disrupted the order of the world.” A parody may also bring out hidden aspects of the original text. These dynamics are illustrated through an analysis of the reuse of Psalm 23 in Lamentations 3:1 and of Psalm 8 in Job 7:17–21, 4 Ezra 8:30–36, and Matthew 8:19–20 // Luke 9:57–58.