The fables of Jesus in the gospel of Luke: a new foundation for the study of parables
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Book I A New Foundation for the Study of Parables -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Problems -- 1.2 The Answer -- 1.3 Scholarship from Jülicher Onward -- 1.3.1 Parable Scholarship -- 1.3.2 Parable and Fable -- 1.3.3 Jülicher�...
| Summary: | Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Book I A New Foundation for the Study of Parables -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 The Problems -- 1.2 The Answer -- 1.3 Scholarship from Jülicher Onward -- 1.3.1 Parable Scholarship -- 1.3.2 Parable and Fable -- 1.3.3 Jülicher's "Parabeln" -- 1.4 The Structure of the Study -- Chapter 2 Fable First Principles -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Myths about the Fable -- 2.2.1 Children's Literature -- 2.2.2 Jews Tell Parables, Greeks Tell Fables -- 2.2.3 "Realistic" People and "Impossible" Talking Beasts -- 2.3 Myths about the Parable -- 2.4 The Fable in Modern Secondary Literature -- 2.4.1 Ben Edwin Perry and the Language Barricades -- 2.4.2 Francisco Rodríguez Adrados and Weighty Tomes -- 2.4.3 Émile Chambry and How to Locate a Fable by Number -- 2.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 The Story of the Fable through the Hellenistic Period -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Archaic Period -- 3.2.1 The Semitic World -- 3.2.2 The Greek World -- 3.3 The Classical Period of Ancient Greece -- 3.3.1 Rhetoric -- 3.3.2 Education -- 3.3.3 Condemned Wise Men -- 3.3.4 Early Traditions about Aesop -- 3.4 The Hellenistic Period -- 3.4.1 Demetrius of Phalerum -- 3.4.2 Callimachus of Cyrene -- 3.4.3 John Rylands Papyrus 493 and the Rhetorical Collections -- 3.5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 Fable Collections in the Days of Jesus and the Gospels -- 4.1 Babrius and the Babrian Tradition -- 4.1.1 About Babrius -- 4.1.2 The Text -- 4.1.3 Sources -- 4.1.4 Babrius and the Bible -- 4.2 Phaedrus and the Phaedrian Tradition -- 4.2.1 Phaedrus the Freedman -- 4.2.2 The Text -- 4.2.3 Sources -- 4.3 The Augustana Collection and the Prose Recensions -- 4.3.1 The Date -- 4.3.2 The Text -- 4.3.3 The Origin and Sources -- 4.4 The Life of Aesop: A Sketch -- 4.4.1 The Date and Provenance -- 4.4.2 The Ancient Recensions of the Text. The Fables of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke introduces the world of the ancient fable to biblical scholarship and argues that Jesus's parables in Luke's gospel belong to the ancient fable tradition. Jesus is regarded as the first figure in history to use the parable genre with any regularity--a remarkable historical curiosity that serves as the foundation for many assumptions in New Testament scholarship. The Fables of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke challenges this consensus, situating the parables within a literary context unknown to biblical scholarship: the ancient fable. After introducing the ancient fable, the "parables" of Jesus in Luke's gospel are used as a testing ground to demon - strate that they are identical to first-century fables. This challenges many conven - tional assumptions about parables, Luke's gospel, and the relationship of Jesus to the storytelling traditions of the Mediterranean world. This study offers multitudes of new parallels to the otherwise enigmatic parable tradition, opens an exciting new venue for comparative exploration, and lays a new foundation upon which to study the fables of Jesus |
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| ISBN: | 3657760652 |