Parables in Changing Contexts Essays on the Study of Parables in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism (Jewish and Christian Perspectives)

ISBN 10: 900441696X / ISBN 13: 9789004416963

Published by Brill, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Parables in Changing Contexts Essays on the Study of Parables in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism (Jewish and Christian Perspectives)
• Publisher: Brill
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 900441696X
• ISBN 13: 9789004416963
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used

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Synopsis

In Parables in Changing Contexts, new venues in the comparative study of parables are addressed by scholars of Judaism, New Testament, Buddhism and Islam. Essays cover parables in the synoptic Gospels, Rabbinic midrash, and parabolic tales and fables in the Babylonian Talmud. Three essays address parables in Islam and Buddhism. The volume shows how parables are suitably adapted in terms of form and rhetoric to enhance religious identity formation. Parables serve as media, as sensational forms making the sacred present, albeit encoded or riddled, in all cases invoking the listener’s active interpretative participation and cultural imagination. Adapting a multidisciplinary approach to these gems of storytelling, parables in a particular way provide new insights in the cultures that produced them.

About the Author

Eric Ottenheijm (1961) is Assistant Professor for Jewish Studies and Biblical Literature at Utrecht University. His publications cover early Christianity in its relation to Judaism, in particular the Gospel of Matthew, and legal traditions and parables in Rabbinic literature. Currently he leads a project on the comparative study of Jewish and Christian parables, ‘Parables and the Partings of the Ways’ (2014-2020).

Marcel Poorthuis, Ph.D. (1992), teaches interreligious dialogue at the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology. His dissertation dealt with the French-Jewish philosopher Immanuel Levinas. He published about Catholicism, Judaism, Buddhism and Islam. He is co-editor of Jewish and Christian Perspectives.