Social-Scientific Interpretation of the Parables of Jesus in Luke: A Review of Some Works of Ernest van Eck
This article examines the contributions of Ernest van Eck concerning the interpretation of parables in the Gospel of Luke. Parables are means of communication in first-century Palestine during the ministry of Jesus. Often concepts, ideas, and images familiar to and evoking the social realities and c...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Neotestamentica
Year: 2021, Volume: 55, Issue: 1, Pages: 171-191 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Luke
/ Parable
/ Exegesis
/ Eck, Ernest van 1960-
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| IxTheo Classification: | HC New Testament KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity |
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| Summary: | This article examines the contributions of Ernest van Eck concerning the interpretation of parables in the Gospel of Luke. Parables are means of communication in first-century Palestine during the ministry of Jesus. Often concepts, ideas, and images familiar to and evoking the social realities and cultural scripts of the audience are engaged in the composition of parables. Jesus did not depart from the means of communication of his audience, including the religious leaders. Parables occupy a substantial place in the teachings of Jesus in the Gospels. The church fathers engaged allegorism in the interpretation of the parables, which makes general the meaning of the parables. Ernest van Eck uses social-scientific criticism to interpret the parables in the attempt to relate it to the specific phenomena of honour, shame, hospitality, peasantry, patronage and clientele, elite and poor, in the context of the audience of the Jesus tradition of 27-30 CE. The interpretive outcomes are that the kingdom of the temple and the kingdom of Rome have created unfavourable conditions for the poor and peasants. The new kingdom seeks to remove all social and cultural challenges and barriers between the elite urban aristocrats and the poor rural peasants. |
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| ISSN: | 2518-4628 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Neotestamentica
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/neo.2021.0001 |