Reading Gospel Parables as Jewish Literature
The gospel parables are part of the broader genre of Jewish story-parables found in rabbinic literature. In the first half of this article seven preliminary characteristics of Jewish parables are presented, some of which challenge our widely accepted assumptions regarding gospel parables. For exampl...
| Published in: | Journal for the study of the New Testament |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sage
[2018]
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| In: |
Journal for the study of the New Testament
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Gospels
/ Early Judaism
/ Rabbinic literature
/ Parable
/ Human being
/ Image of God
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Religious life; material religion BH Judaism CD Christianity and Culture HC New Testament HD Early Judaism NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
Parables
B Image of God B Parable Of The Lost Sheep B Hasidim B mashal B Parable of the Lost Coin |
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| Summary: | The gospel parables are part of the broader genre of Jewish story-parables found in rabbinic literature. In the first half of this article seven preliminary characteristics of Jewish parables are presented, some of which challenge our widely accepted assumptions regarding gospel parables. For example, although there is near scholarly consensus that Jesus told his parables in Aramaic, we do not have a single Aramaic story-parable in Jewish literature in Roman antiquity. All are in Hebrew. In the second half of the study, an example is given of how twin parables are used to convey a novel idea that emerged in Judaism of the Hellenistic period - the value of the human individual because they have been created in the image of God - to demonstrate that Jesus not only embraced this innovative Jewish humanistic approach, but also how he did so with parables. |
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| ISSN: | 1745-5294 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal for the study of the New Testament
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0142064X18788960 |