The Challenge Of Jesus Parables
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| Author | : Richard N. Longenecker |
| Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 344 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9780802846389 |
A fresh look at the meaning of Jesus' parables for Christian living today. The parables recorded in the Gospels are central for an understanding of Jesus and his ministry. Yet the parables are more than simple stories; they present a number of obstacles to contemporary readers hoping to fully grasp their meaning. In this volume, thirteen New Testament scholars provide the background necessary to understand the original context and meaning of Jesus' parables as well as their modern applications, all in a manner easily accessible to general readers. Contributors: Stephen C. Barton Craig A. Evans Richard T. France Donald A. Hagner Morna D. Hooker Sylvia C. Keesmaat Michael P. Knowles Walter L. Liefeld Richard N. Longenecker Allan W. Martens Klyne R. Snodgrass Robert H. Stein Stephen I. Wright
| Author | : N. T. Wright |
| Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
| Total Pages | : 218 |
| Release | : 2015-02-26 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0830899138 |
With an all-new introduction by the author, N. T. Wright's classic work helps us grow in our understanding of the historical Jesus within first-century Palestine while challenging us to follow Jesus more faithfully into the postmodern world of the twenty-first century.
| Author | : Bernard Brandon Scott |
| Publisher | : Fortress Press |
| Total Pages | : 484 |
| Release | : 1989-01-01 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 9781451404180 |
Hear Then the Parable is an innovative literary-social reading of all the parables of Jesus.
| Author | : Amy-Jill Levine |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2014-09-09 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 006219819X |
The renowned biblical scholar, author of The Misunderstood Jew, and general editor for The Jewish Annotated New Testament interweaves history and spiritual analysis to explore Jesus’ most popular teaching parables, exposing their misinterpretations and making them lively and relevant for modern readers. Jesus was a skilled storyteller and perceptive teacher who used parables from everyday life to effectively convey his message and meaning. Life in first-century Palestine was very different from our world today, and many traditional interpretations of Jesus’ stories ignore this disparity and have often allowed anti-Semitism and misogyny to color their perspectives. In this wise, entertaining, and educational book, Amy-Jill Levine offers a fresh, timely reinterpretation of Jesus’ narratives. In Short Stories by Jesus, she analyzes these “problems with parables,” taking readers back in time to understand how their original Jewish audience understood them. Levine reveals the parables’ connections to first-century economic and agricultural life, social customs and morality, Jewish scriptures and Roman culture. With this revitalized understanding, she interprets these moving stories for the contemporary reader, showing how the parables are not just about Jesus, but are also about us—and when read rightly, still challenge and provoke us two thousand years later.
| Author | : Edward F. Beutner |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 144 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
This concise, well-edited book brings together insights from world-renowned scholars into the interpretation of parables.
| Author | : John Dominic Crossan |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : Eschatology |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : John Dominic Crossan |
| Publisher | : Harper Collins |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2012-03-06 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0062098330 |
In 1969, I was teaching at two seminaries inthe Chicago area. One of my courses wason the parables by Jesus and the other wason the resurrection stories about Jesus. I hadobserved that the parabolic stories by Jesusseemed remarkably similar to the resurrectionstories about Jesus. Were the latter intended asparables just as much as the former? Had webeen reading parable, presuming history, andmisunderstanding both? —from The Power of Parable So begins the quest of renowned Jesus scholarJohn Dominic Crossan as he unlocks the truemeanings and purposes of parable in the Bible sothat modern Christians can respond genuinely toJesus's call to fully participate in the kingdom ofGod. In The Power of Parable, Crossan examinesJesus's parables and identifies what he calls the"challenge parable" as Jesus's chosen teaching toolfor gently urging his followers to probe, question,and debate the ideological absolutes of religiousfaith and the presuppositions of social, political,and economic traditions. Moving from parables by Jesus to parables aboutJesus, Crossan then presents the four gospels as"megaparables." By revealing how the gospels arenot reflections of the actual biography of Jesus butrather (mis)interpretations by the gospel writersthemselves, Crossan reaffirms the power of parablesto challenge and enable us to co-create withGod a world of justice, love, and peace.
| Author | : John Dominic Crossan |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : Eschatology |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Mary Ann Getty-Sullivan |
| Publisher | : Liturgical Press |
| Total Pages | : 208 |
| Release | : 2017-06-15 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : 0814638880 |
Do you not understand this parable? is a question Jesus posed to his disciples (Mark 4:13). Just as the first disciples often did not understand Jesus ' many parables, so it is for listeners and readers nearly two thousand years later. In Parables of the Kingdom, Mary Ann Getty-Sullivan helps readers to hear and see and understand the parables of Jesus. She offers a general introduction to the use of parables in the life and ministry of Jesus and the early church. In addition, Getty-Sullivan helps readers learn to interpret parables, to enter into what the parables can reveal about Jesus and his audience, about the evangelists and their communities, and about how we are to understand the Kingdom of God today. Parables of the Kingdom helps us hear and see Jesus ' parables with new eyes and renewed hearts 'thereby allowing the parables to transform our lives and help us respond with new conviction to the gospel's power in our world. Mary Ann Getty-Sullivan holds an S.T.D. from the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. She has been teaching New Testament courses in colleges and seminaries for more than thirty years and has recently retired from teaching full time to devote more time to writing and lecturing. Mary Ann has written several commentaries on the Letters of Saint Paul. Her recent books include Women in the New Testament published by Liturgical Press.
| Author | : Bernard Brandon Scott |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Religion |
| ISBN | : |
In this book the author sets his interpretation of the key parables of Jesus in the context of other things Jesus said and did. The result is a startling and provocative picture of the historical figure and the challenge he presents to contemporary life.
