| Description |
1 online resource (368 pages) |
| Series |
Matrix: The Bible in Mediterranean Context |
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Matrix--the Bible in Mediterranean context.
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| Contents |
Interpreting the parables of the Galilean Jesus -- The sower (Mark 4:3b-8): In the kingdom everybody can have enough -- The mustard seed (Q 13:18-19) A wild and chaotic kingdom taking over -- The feast (Luke 14:16b-23): A kingdom patron -- The lost sheep (Luke 15:4-6): A surprising shepherd -- The vineyard laborers (Matt 20:1-15) An unexpected patron -- The unmerciful servant (Matt 18:23-33): Honor refined -- The parable of the tenants (Gos. Thom. 65): A surprising non-violent patron -- The merchant (Matt 13:45-46): An outsider becomes an insider -- The friend at midnight (Luke 11:5-8): A shameless and exploiting neighbor -- The rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-26): An unwilling patron -- The Minas (Luke 19:12b-24, 27): Protesting for the sake of the kingdom -- The social prophet from Galilee |
| 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 Mediterra |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Jesus Christ -- Parables.
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| SUBJECT |
Jesus Christ. fast (OCoLC)fst00040116 |
| Subject |
Parables, Biblical.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kloppenborg, John S., 1951- writer of foreword.
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| ISBN |
9781498233705 |
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1498233708 |
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