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Listening to the Parables of Jesus (Paperback)
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Listening to the Parables of Jesus (Paperback)
Series: Jesus Seminar Guides
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Loot Price R563
Discovery Miles 5 630
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"What if the purpose or function of a parable is not to instruct
but to haunt?" So begins Listening to the Parables of Jesus, edited
by Edward F. Beutner, who suggests that, from time to time, even
scholars scratch their heads in puzzlement over the yin and yang of
Jesus' parables. This concise, well-edited book brings together
insights from world-renowned scholars into the interpretation of
parables. Lane McGaughy's opening essay provides high fidelity
earphones that let readers hear the vivid and distinctive nature of
the language of parable. Robert Miller offers an original treatment
of two parables from the gospels of Matthew and Thomas, parables
that he renames, "The Overpriced Pearl" and "The Treasure of
Immorality." With his eye for narrative structure, film director
Paul Verhoeven identifies fault lines in Matthew's version of the
Vineyard Laborers and proposes an alternative version in which the
?first will be first.? In his essay on the Leased Vineyard, Brandon
Scott demonstrates how rabbinic parables can illuminate the
otherwise shadowy nooks and crannies of a dark parable of violence
found in Mark's gospel. The final three essays describe the
parables globally as artful language events?as fulcrums, so to
speak, upon which our understanding of the world gets overturned
and undermined. According to Robert Funk, Jesus? parables are
knotholes in the cosmic fence through which we glimpse the world as
Jesus saw it. In Listening to the Parables of Jesus, leading
scholars of the parables help readers find the knotholes. The rest
is up to them.
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