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The Parables of Jesus the Galilean : Stories of a Social Prophet.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Matrix: The Bible in Mediterranean Context SeriesPublisher: Eugene : Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (368 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781498233712
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Parables of Jesus the GalileanDDC classification:
  • 226.80600000000001
LOC classification:
  • BT375.2 .E254 2016
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER1 Interpreting the Parables of the Galilean Jesus -- CHAPTER 2 The Sower (Mark 4:3b-8): In the Kingdom Everybody Can Have Enough -- CHAPTER 3 The Mustard Seed (Q 13:18-19): A Wild and Chaotic Kingdom Taking Over -- CHAPTER 4 The Feast (Luke 14:16b-23): A Kingdom Patron -- CHAPTER 5 The Lost Sheep (Luke 15:4-6): A Surprising Shepherd -- CHAPTER 6 The Vineyard Laborers (Matt 20:1-15): An Unexpected Patron -- CHAPTER 7 The Unmerciful Servant (Matt 18:23-33): Honor Redefined -- CHAPTER 8 The Tenants (Gos. Thom. 65): A Surprising Nonviolent Patron -- CHAPTER 9 The Merchant (Matt 13:45-46): An Outsider Becomes an Insider -- CHAPTER 10 The Friend at Midnight (Luke 11:5-8): A Shameless and Exploiting Neighbor -- CHAPTER 11 The Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19- 26): An Unwilling Patron -- CHAPTER 12 The Minas (Luke 19:12b-24, 27): Protesting for the Sake of the Kingdom -- CHAPTER 13 The Social Prophet from Galilee -- Bibliography.
Summary: Who do we meet in the stories Jesus told? In The Parables of Jesus the Galilean: Stories of a Social Prophet, a selection of the parables of Jesus is read using a social-scientific approach. The interest of the author is not the parables in their literary contexts, but rather the parables as Jesus told them in a first-century Jewish Galilean sociopolitical, religious, and economic setting. Therefore, this volume is part of the material turn in parable research and offers a reading of the parables that pays special attention to Mediterranean anthropology by stressing key first-century Mediterranean values. Where applicable, available papyri that may be relevant in understanding the parables of Jesus from a fresh perspective are used to assemble solid ancient comparanda for the practices and social realities that the parables presuppose. The picture of Jesus that emerges from these readings is that of a social prophet. The parables of Jesus, as symbols of social transformation, envisioned a transformed and alternative world. This world, for Jesus, was the kingdom of God.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER1 Interpreting the Parables of the Galilean Jesus -- CHAPTER 2 The Sower (Mark 4:3b-8): In the Kingdom Everybody Can Have Enough -- CHAPTER 3 The Mustard Seed (Q 13:18-19): A Wild and Chaotic Kingdom Taking Over -- CHAPTER 4 The Feast (Luke 14:16b-23): A Kingdom Patron -- CHAPTER 5 The Lost Sheep (Luke 15:4-6): A Surprising Shepherd -- CHAPTER 6 The Vineyard Laborers (Matt 20:1-15): An Unexpected Patron -- CHAPTER 7 The Unmerciful Servant (Matt 18:23-33): Honor Redefined -- CHAPTER 8 The Tenants (Gos. Thom. 65): A Surprising Nonviolent Patron -- CHAPTER 9 The Merchant (Matt 13:45-46): An Outsider Becomes an Insider -- CHAPTER 10 The Friend at Midnight (Luke 11:5-8): A Shameless and Exploiting Neighbor -- CHAPTER 11 The Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19- 26): An Unwilling Patron -- CHAPTER 12 The Minas (Luke 19:12b-24, 27): Protesting for the Sake of the Kingdom -- CHAPTER 13 The Social Prophet from Galilee -- Bibliography.

Who do we meet in the stories Jesus told? In The Parables of Jesus the Galilean: Stories of a Social Prophet, a selection of the parables of Jesus is read using a social-scientific approach. The interest of the author is not the parables in their literary contexts, but rather the parables as Jesus told them in a first-century Jewish Galilean sociopolitical, religious, and economic setting. Therefore, this volume is part of the material turn in parable research and offers a reading of the parables that pays special attention to Mediterranean anthropology by stressing key first-century Mediterranean values. Where applicable, available papyri that may be relevant in understanding the parables of Jesus from a fresh perspective are used to assemble solid ancient comparanda for the practices and social realities that the parables presuppose. The picture of Jesus that emerges from these readings is that of a social prophet. The parables of Jesus, as symbols of social transformation, envisioned a transformed and alternative world. This world, for Jesus, was the kingdom of God.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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