Encountering the Parables in Contexts Old and New

T. E. Goud, J.R.C. Cousland, John P. Harrison, T. E. Goud, J.R.C. Cousland, John P. Harrison

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9780567706133
• eBook ISBN:
  9780567706164
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

The contributors to this book pursue three important lines of inquiry into parable study, in order to illustrate how these lessons have been received throughout the millennia. The contributors consider not only the historical and material world of the parables' composition, and focusing on the social, political, economic, and material reality of that world, but also seek to connect how the parables may have been seen and heard in ancient contexts with how they have been, and continue to be, seen and heard.
Intentionally allowing for a "bounded openness" of approach and interpretation, these essays explore numerous contexts, encounters and responses. Examining topics ranging from ancient harvest imagery and dependency relations to contemporary experience with the narratives and lessons of the parables, this volume seeks to link those very real ancient contexts with our own varied modern contexts.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction: Encountering the Parables
• Many-fold Yields by Polyvalent Interpretation: The Parable of the Mustard Seed in Synoptic Tradition
• Harvest Imagery in Q Parables
• Written and Unwritten Obligations: Dependency Relations in Early Roman Galilee
• A Realistic Reading of the Parable of the Lost Coin in Q: Gaining or Losing Even More?
• In Ferment: Is Jesus’s Parable of the Leaven Hyperbolic or True to Life?
• Telling Stories in a Violent World
• οἰxοδεσπότης, xύριος, and βασιλεύς: Identifying Those with Slaves in Matthean Parables in Light of the Literary Evidence and Realia of Roman Palestine in the First Century
• Whose Voices Matter? A Persistent Widow in a Polyphonic Parable (Luke 18:1–8)
• Mirroring and Echoing: Realism and Figuration in Jesus’s Parables
• Matthew 20:1–15: The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard or of a Manager-Disciple?
• Twenty Years of Experiencing the arables in Africa
• Encountering the Parables: Appreciation and Critique
• Contributors
• Index of Parables
• Index of Sources
• Index of Authors
• Index of Subjects
• eCopyright