The Parables of Jesus the Galilean: Stories of a Social Prophet (Matrix: the Bible in Mediterranean Context, Band 9) - Softcover

Van Eck, Ernest

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1498233708 ISBN 13: 9781498233705

Verlag: Cascade Books, 2016

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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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Ernest van Eck is Principal and Professor of New Testament in Knox College at the University of Toronto. He is the author of The Parables of Jesus the Galilean (Cascade Books, 2016 and Galilee and Jerusalem in Mark's Story of Jesus (1995). He has published more than ninety academic articles and has contributed to several multivolume works.

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• Verlag: Cascade Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1498233708
• ISBN 13: 9781498233705
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
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