Puzzling the Parables of Jesus : Methods and Interpretation /

Modern scholarship on the parables has long been preoccupied with asking what Jesus himself said and what he intended to accomplish with his parables. Ruben Zimmermann moves beyond that agenda to explore the dynamics of parabolic speech in all their rich complexity. Introductory chapters address the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zimmermann, Ruban (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Jesus Christ > Parables.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface and acknowledgments
  • part I. Three approaches to parables
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Understanding the parables over the past century : an overview of the history of research
  • 3. Historical approaches : parables as media for remembering Jesus
  • 4. Literary approaches : the parable genre--a new definition
  • 5. Reader-oriented approaches : a playing field for polyvalent parables
  • part II. How to interpret a parable
  • 6. Reading and analyzing parables
  • 7. The lost sheep (Q/Luke 15:1-7) and the parables in Q
  • 8. The mustard seed (Mark 4:30-32) and the parables in Mark
  • 9. The ten virgins (Matt. 25:1-13) and the parables in Matthew
  • 10. The good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-35) and the parables in Luke
  • 11. The dying and living grain (John 12:24) and the parables in John
  • 12. The empty jar (Gos. Thom. 97) and the parables in Thomas.

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