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The Fables of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke : A New Foundation for the Study of Parables.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies in Cultural Contexts of the Bible SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (651 pages)Content type:
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  • 9783657760657
Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Fables of Jesus in the Gospel of LukeLOC classification:
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Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Book I A New Foundation for the Study of Parables -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Problems -- 1.2 The Answer -- 1.3 Scholarship from Jülicher Onward -- 1.3.1 Parable Scholarship -- 1.3.2 Parable and Fable -- 1.3.3 Jülicher's "Parabeln" -- 1.4 The Structure of the Study -- Chapter 2 Fable First Principles -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Myths about the Fable -- 2.2.1 Children's Literature -- 2.2.2 Jews Tell Parables, Greeks Tell Fables -- 2.2.3 "Realistic" People and "Impossible" Talking Beasts -- 2.3 Myths about the Parable -- 2.4 The Fable in Modern Secondary Literature -- 2.4.1 Ben Edwin Perry and the Language Barricades -- 2.4.2 Francisco Rodríguez Adrados and Weighty Tomes -- 2.4.3 Émile Chambry and How to Locate a Fable by Number -- 2.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 The Story of the Fable through the Hellenistic Period -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Archaic Period -- 3.2.1 The Semitic World -- 3.2.2 The Greek World -- 3.3 The Classical Period of Ancient Greece -- 3.3.1 Rhetoric -- 3.3.2 Education -- 3.3.3 Condemned Wise Men -- 3.3.4 Early Traditions about Aesop -- 3.4 The Hellenistic Period -- 3.4.1 Demetrius of Phalerum -- 3.4.2 Callimachus of Cyrene -- 3.4.3 John Rylands Papyrus 493 and the Rhetorical Collections -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Fable Collections in the Days of Jesus and the Gospels -- 4.1 Babrius and the Babrian Tradition -- 4.1.1 About Babrius -- 4.1.2 The Text -- 4.1.3 Sources -- 4.1.4 Babrius and the Bible -- 4.2 Phaedrus and the Phaedrian Tradition -- 4.2.1 Phaedrus the Freedman -- 4.2.2 The Text -- 4.2.3 Sources -- 4.3 The Augustana Collection and the Prose Recensions -- 4.3.1 The Date -- 4.3.2 The Text -- 4.3.3 The Origin and Sources -- 4.4 The Life of Aesop: A Sketch -- 4.4.1 The Date and Provenance -- 4.4.2 The Ancient Recensions of the Text.
4.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Fable in Graeco-Roman Education -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Education in the First Century -- 5.3 Primary Education -- 5.4 Hermeneumata -- 5.5 Secondary Education -- 5.6 Progymnasmata -- 5.6.1 The Chreia -- 5.6.2 Working with the Fable -- 5.6.3 Applying the Morals -- 5.6.4 Inventing Fables and Morals -- 5.7 Defining the Fable -- 5.7.1 Ancient and Modern Theory -- 5.7.2 Terminology -- 5.8 Whether to Divide Fables by Characters or Possibility -- 5.9 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Fables of the Rabbis -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Fables of the Tannaim -- 6.2.1 Ben Zakkai: Talking Trees and Fox Meshalim -- 6.2.2 Ben Hananiah: Quelling a Revolt with a Fable -- 6.2.3 Akiva: A Martyr's Mashal -- 6.2.4 Meir: The Fable Corpus and the End of an Era -- 6.2.5 Bar Kappara and the Jewish Aesops -- 6.3 Spotting Fables in the Rabbinic Corpus -- 6.3.1 Meshalim Adapted from Hellenistic Fables -- 6.3.2 Characteristics of the Jewish Fable -- 6.4 Greeks and Romans on the Semitic Fables -- 6.5 Supersessionism and the Parable -- 6.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 The Parable and the Ancient Fable -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Synthesis of Parable and Fable -- 7.3 The Meaning of παραβολή in the Ancient Rhetoricians -- 7.3.1 Aristotle's "Comparisons and Fables" -- 7.3.2 Apsines of Gadara: No People in Parables? -- 7.3.3 Tropes of Trypho and Homer's Parables -- 7.3.4 Folding Fables with Lucillus, Quintilian, and Aesop -- 7.4 Conclusion -- 7.5 Conclusion to Book I -- Book II The Fables of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke -- Chapter 8 Before We Forgot Our Fables -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Steps down the Path before Jülicher -- 8.2.1 Edward Greswell: "What is There to Discriminate Them Asunder?" -- 8.2.2 Richard Trench: "Fabula … An Unpleasant Sound in the Ear" -- 8.2.3 Gottlob Christian Storr: "Parables Are Rational Fables".
8.2.4 Hugo Grotius: "These αἴνους (Fables) of Christ" -- 8.2.5 An Icelandic Monk and the Dæmisögur of Jesus -- 8.2.6 Odo of Cheriton and the Parabolae of Aesop -- 8.2.7 Berechiah ha-Nakdan and the Medieval םילעוׁש ילׁשמ -- 8.2.8 Nonnus and the μῦθοι of Jesus -- 8.2.9 The Gospel of Thomas and the Missing ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲃⲟⲗⲏ -- 8.3 Aesop and the Fable in The Gospel of Luke -- 8.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 9 The Gospel Jesus and the Fable Teller -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The Presence of the Author -- 9.2.1 For Slaves -- 9.2.2 For Sophists -- 9.3 Jesus and the Fable Teller Tradition -- 9.4 The Death of the Fable Teller and the Wicked Tenants (Luke 20:9-19) -- 9.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 10 The Form of the Fable -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The Form of the "Parable" -- 10.3 The pronomina indefinita τις and δύο -- 10.4 Soliloquy and Direct Speech -- 10.5 How a Fable Is Structured -- 10.5.1 The Fool Acting Alone -- 10.5.2 The Agonistic Fable -- 10.6 Expanding and Condensing the Lukan Fables -- 10.6.1 Expanding the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32) -- 10.6.2 Condensing the Two Debtors (Luke 7:41-42) and Paraphrasing Fables -- 10.7 The Chreia and the Fable -- 10.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 11 Reading from the Fable Perspective -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Characters and Themes in the Fable -- 11.3 Live and Die by Your Wits: In Praise of the Crafty Steward (Luke 16:1-13) -- 11.4 Comedy and Austerity: Getting the Punchline of the Judge and the Widow (Luke 18:1-8) -- 11.5 "Parables" Are Unrealistic: The Scale of Fictionality and the Rich Fool (Luke 12:15-21) -- 11.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 12 The Lessons of the Fable and How to Interpret Them -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Promythium and the Epimythium -- 12.2.1 Differentiating the Promythium and Epimythium -- 12.2.2 Multiple Morals -- 12.3 A Promythium to "Parable" Interpretation: Lessing and Jülicher's Single Point Approach.
12.4 The Promythium and the Lukan Fables -- 12.4.1 The Style of the Promythium -- 12.4.2 "Against Those Who …" and Other Subjects -- 12.5 The Forms of the Epimythium -- 12.6 "You" in the Ancient Fable -- 12.7 Conclusion -- Chapter 13 Interpreting from the Fable Perspective -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 The Challenge of Weaving a Fable into a Gospel: The Judge and the Widow (Luke 18:1-8) -- 13.3 The Production of New Paratexts by the Fable Collector: The Pharisee and the Tax Collector (Luke 18:9-14) -- 13.4 The Futility of the "Single Lesson" Theory: The Crafty Steward (Luke 16:1-13) -- 13.5 Scribes Interpreting Jesus's Fables: The Place at the Table (Luke 14:7-11) -- 13.6 Creating Plot with the Chreia, the Fable, and Its Framing Devices: The Rich Fool (Luke 12:15-21) -- 13.7 An Epimythium to Fable Interpretation: C. H. Dodd and the Kingdom of God -- 13.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 14 The Lukan Fable Collection: A Source -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Luke's "Parable" Collection in Gospel Scholarship -- 14.3 Aesthetic Features of the Ancient Fable Collections -- 14.3.1 Phaedrus -- 14.3.2 The Augustana Collection -- 14.3.3 Babrius -- 14.3.4 Avianus -- 14.4 Aesthetic Features of the Lukan Fable Collection -- 14.4.1 Twin Fables and Coordinating Catchphrases -- 14.4.2 Conspicuous Catchwords or Thematic Vocabulary -- 14.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 15 Source Criticism of the Lukan Fables -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 The Source Critical Value of the Fable Features -- 15.2.1 The Absence of the Kingdom of God in the Lukan Fable Collection -- 15.2.2 Soliloquy and Interior Monologue -- 15.2.3 Narrative Framing Devices -- 15.3 Style and Vocabulary -- 15.3.1 The Historical Present -- 15.3.2 Conjunctions and Parataxis -- 15.3.3 Asyndeton -- 15.3.4 The Absence of the Lukan Speaking Formula -- 15.3.5 Vocabulary -- 15.4 Problems with the Alternative Theories.
15.5 The Shape of the Source -- 15.6 The Sitz im Leben -- 15.7 The Date, Location, and Authorship of the Lukan Fable Collection -- 15.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 16 Fables beyond the Lukan Gospel -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Fables and the Other Early Christian Writings -- 16.2.1 Matthew -- 16.2.2 Q (?) -- 16.2.3 Mark -- 16.2.4 John -- 16.2.5 Paul -- 16.2.6 Thomas -- 16.3 Church Fathers -- 16.4 The Historical Jesus -- 16.5 Biblical and Post-biblical Judaism -- 16.6 Fable Scholarship -- 16.7 Conclusion to Book II -- Bibliography -- Key to Perry Numbers -- Index of Fables -- Index of Biblical, Early Christian, and Jewish Sources -- Index of Other Classical and Pre-Modern Authors and Materials -- Index of Modern Authors (Selective) -- Index of Subjects.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Book I A New Foundation for the Study of Parables -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Problems -- 1.2 The Answer -- 1.3 Scholarship from Jülicher Onward -- 1.3.1 Parable Scholarship -- 1.3.2 Parable and Fable -- 1.3.3 Jülicher's "Parabeln" -- 1.4 The Structure of the Study -- Chapter 2 Fable First Principles -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Myths about the Fable -- 2.2.1 Children's Literature -- 2.2.2 Jews Tell Parables, Greeks Tell Fables -- 2.2.3 "Realistic" People and "Impossible" Talking Beasts -- 2.3 Myths about the Parable -- 2.4 The Fable in Modern Secondary Literature -- 2.4.1 Ben Edwin Perry and the Language Barricades -- 2.4.2 Francisco Rodríguez Adrados and Weighty Tomes -- 2.4.3 Émile Chambry and How to Locate a Fable by Number -- 2.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 The Story of the Fable through the Hellenistic Period -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Archaic Period -- 3.2.1 The Semitic World -- 3.2.2 The Greek World -- 3.3 The Classical Period of Ancient Greece -- 3.3.1 Rhetoric -- 3.3.2 Education -- 3.3.3 Condemned Wise Men -- 3.3.4 Early Traditions about Aesop -- 3.4 The Hellenistic Period -- 3.4.1 Demetrius of Phalerum -- 3.4.2 Callimachus of Cyrene -- 3.4.3 John Rylands Papyrus 493 and the Rhetorical Collections -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Fable Collections in the Days of Jesus and the Gospels -- 4.1 Babrius and the Babrian Tradition -- 4.1.1 About Babrius -- 4.1.2 The Text -- 4.1.3 Sources -- 4.1.4 Babrius and the Bible -- 4.2 Phaedrus and the Phaedrian Tradition -- 4.2.1 Phaedrus the Freedman -- 4.2.2 The Text -- 4.2.3 Sources -- 4.3 The Augustana Collection and the Prose Recensions -- 4.3.1 The Date -- 4.3.2 The Text -- 4.3.3 The Origin and Sources -- 4.4 The Life of Aesop: A Sketch -- 4.4.1 The Date and Provenance -- 4.4.2 The Ancient Recensions of the Text.

4.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Fable in Graeco-Roman Education -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Education in the First Century -- 5.3 Primary Education -- 5.4 Hermeneumata -- 5.5 Secondary Education -- 5.6 Progymnasmata -- 5.6.1 The Chreia -- 5.6.2 Working with the Fable -- 5.6.3 Applying the Morals -- 5.6.4 Inventing Fables and Morals -- 5.7 Defining the Fable -- 5.7.1 Ancient and Modern Theory -- 5.7.2 Terminology -- 5.8 Whether to Divide Fables by Characters or Possibility -- 5.9 Conclusion -- Chapter 6 The Fables of the Rabbis -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Fables of the Tannaim -- 6.2.1 Ben Zakkai: Talking Trees and Fox Meshalim -- 6.2.2 Ben Hananiah: Quelling a Revolt with a Fable -- 6.2.3 Akiva: A Martyr's Mashal -- 6.2.4 Meir: The Fable Corpus and the End of an Era -- 6.2.5 Bar Kappara and the Jewish Aesops -- 6.3 Spotting Fables in the Rabbinic Corpus -- 6.3.1 Meshalim Adapted from Hellenistic Fables -- 6.3.2 Characteristics of the Jewish Fable -- 6.4 Greeks and Romans on the Semitic Fables -- 6.5 Supersessionism and the Parable -- 6.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 7 The Parable and the Ancient Fable -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Synthesis of Parable and Fable -- 7.3 The Meaning of παραβολή in the Ancient Rhetoricians -- 7.3.1 Aristotle's "Comparisons and Fables" -- 7.3.2 Apsines of Gadara: No People in Parables? -- 7.3.3 Tropes of Trypho and Homer's Parables -- 7.3.4 Folding Fables with Lucillus, Quintilian, and Aesop -- 7.4 Conclusion -- 7.5 Conclusion to Book I -- Book II The Fables of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke -- Chapter 8 Before We Forgot Our Fables -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Steps down the Path before Jülicher -- 8.2.1 Edward Greswell: "What is There to Discriminate Them Asunder?" -- 8.2.2 Richard Trench: "Fabula … An Unpleasant Sound in the Ear" -- 8.2.3 Gottlob Christian Storr: "Parables Are Rational Fables".

8.2.4 Hugo Grotius: "These αἴνους (Fables) of Christ" -- 8.2.5 An Icelandic Monk and the Dæmisögur of Jesus -- 8.2.6 Odo of Cheriton and the Parabolae of Aesop -- 8.2.7 Berechiah ha-Nakdan and the Medieval םילעוׁש ילׁשמ -- 8.2.8 Nonnus and the μῦθοι of Jesus -- 8.2.9 The Gospel of Thomas and the Missing ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲃⲟⲗⲏ -- 8.3 Aesop and the Fable in The Gospel of Luke -- 8.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 9 The Gospel Jesus and the Fable Teller -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 The Presence of the Author -- 9.2.1 For Slaves -- 9.2.2 For Sophists -- 9.3 Jesus and the Fable Teller Tradition -- 9.4 The Death of the Fable Teller and the Wicked Tenants (Luke 20:9-19) -- 9.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 10 The Form of the Fable -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The Form of the "Parable" -- 10.3 The pronomina indefinita τις and δύο -- 10.4 Soliloquy and Direct Speech -- 10.5 How a Fable Is Structured -- 10.5.1 The Fool Acting Alone -- 10.5.2 The Agonistic Fable -- 10.6 Expanding and Condensing the Lukan Fables -- 10.6.1 Expanding the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32) -- 10.6.2 Condensing the Two Debtors (Luke 7:41-42) and Paraphrasing Fables -- 10.7 The Chreia and the Fable -- 10.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 11 Reading from the Fable Perspective -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Characters and Themes in the Fable -- 11.3 Live and Die by Your Wits: In Praise of the Crafty Steward (Luke 16:1-13) -- 11.4 Comedy and Austerity: Getting the Punchline of the Judge and the Widow (Luke 18:1-8) -- 11.5 "Parables" Are Unrealistic: The Scale of Fictionality and the Rich Fool (Luke 12:15-21) -- 11.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 12 The Lessons of the Fable and How to Interpret Them -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 The Promythium and the Epimythium -- 12.2.1 Differentiating the Promythium and Epimythium -- 12.2.2 Multiple Morals -- 12.3 A Promythium to "Parable" Interpretation: Lessing and Jülicher's Single Point Approach.

12.4 The Promythium and the Lukan Fables -- 12.4.1 The Style of the Promythium -- 12.4.2 "Against Those Who …" and Other Subjects -- 12.5 The Forms of the Epimythium -- 12.6 "You" in the Ancient Fable -- 12.7 Conclusion -- Chapter 13 Interpreting from the Fable Perspective -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 The Challenge of Weaving a Fable into a Gospel: The Judge and the Widow (Luke 18:1-8) -- 13.3 The Production of New Paratexts by the Fable Collector: The Pharisee and the Tax Collector (Luke 18:9-14) -- 13.4 The Futility of the "Single Lesson" Theory: The Crafty Steward (Luke 16:1-13) -- 13.5 Scribes Interpreting Jesus's Fables: The Place at the Table (Luke 14:7-11) -- 13.6 Creating Plot with the Chreia, the Fable, and Its Framing Devices: The Rich Fool (Luke 12:15-21) -- 13.7 An Epimythium to Fable Interpretation: C. H. Dodd and the Kingdom of God -- 13.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 14 The Lukan Fable Collection: A Source -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Luke's "Parable" Collection in Gospel Scholarship -- 14.3 Aesthetic Features of the Ancient Fable Collections -- 14.3.1 Phaedrus -- 14.3.2 The Augustana Collection -- 14.3.3 Babrius -- 14.3.4 Avianus -- 14.4 Aesthetic Features of the Lukan Fable Collection -- 14.4.1 Twin Fables and Coordinating Catchphrases -- 14.4.2 Conspicuous Catchwords or Thematic Vocabulary -- 14.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 15 Source Criticism of the Lukan Fables -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 The Source Critical Value of the Fable Features -- 15.2.1 The Absence of the Kingdom of God in the Lukan Fable Collection -- 15.2.2 Soliloquy and Interior Monologue -- 15.2.3 Narrative Framing Devices -- 15.3 Style and Vocabulary -- 15.3.1 The Historical Present -- 15.3.2 Conjunctions and Parataxis -- 15.3.3 Asyndeton -- 15.3.4 The Absence of the Lukan Speaking Formula -- 15.3.5 Vocabulary -- 15.4 Problems with the Alternative Theories.

15.5 The Shape of the Source -- 15.6 The Sitz im Leben -- 15.7 The Date, Location, and Authorship of the Lukan Fable Collection -- 15.8 Conclusion -- Chapter 16 Fables beyond the Lukan Gospel -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Fables and the Other Early Christian Writings -- 16.2.1 Matthew -- 16.2.2 Q (?) -- 16.2.3 Mark -- 16.2.4 John -- 16.2.5 Paul -- 16.2.6 Thomas -- 16.3 Church Fathers -- 16.4 The Historical Jesus -- 16.5 Biblical and Post-biblical Judaism -- 16.6 Fable Scholarship -- 16.7 Conclusion to Book II -- Bibliography -- Key to Perry Numbers -- Index of Fables -- Index of Biblical, Early Christian, and Jewish Sources -- Index of Other Classical and Pre-Modern Authors and Materials -- Index of Modern Authors (Selective) -- Index of Subjects.

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