The Parable of the Talents (Matt 25:14–30): Preparing Jesus’ Disciples to Lead the Worldwide Expansion of the Mission of Jesus
There is an unresolved tension between the parable of the Talent’s Matthean literary arrangement and readings proposed by modern scholars using socio-historical research to assess the parable’s reception by a first century audience. Drawing on metaphor theory and incorporating insights from the main...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Novum Testamentum
Year: 2021, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 159-176 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Parable of the pounds
/ Metaphor
/ Rhetoric
/ Mission (international law
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament |
| Further subjects: | B
Parable
B Rhetoric B Metaphor B talents B universal mission |
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| Summary: | There is an unresolved tension between the parable of the Talent’s Matthean literary arrangement and readings proposed by modern scholars using socio-historical research to assess the parable’s reception by a first century audience. Drawing on metaphor theory and incorporating insights from the main interpretive trajectories found in modern scholarship on this parable, the author here proposes a new literary-critical reading that resolves this tension. He argues the parable’s rhetorical function within the Matthean narrative is to prepare the Matthean disciples to lead the universal expansion of the mission of the Matthean Jesus in the post-Easter period. |
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| ISSN: | 1568-5365 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Novum Testamentum
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15685365-12341700 |