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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.
Price: $175.00
Pages: 350
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series
Publication Date:
19 December 2019
ISBN: 9789004416963
Format: Hardcover
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.
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.