The Parables of Jesus the Galilean: Stories of a Social Prophet
Who do we meet in the stories Jesus told? In The Parables of Jesus the Galilean: Stories of a Social Prophet, a selection of the parables of Jesus is read using a social-scientific approach. The interest of the author is not the parables in their literary contexts, but rather the parables as Jesus told them in a first-century Jewish Galilean sociopolitical, religious, and economic setting. Therefore, this volume is part of the material turn in parable research and offers a reading of the parables that pays special attention to Mediterranean anthropology by stressing key first-century Mediterranean values. Where applicable, available papyri that may be relevant in understanding the parables of Jesus from a fresh perspective are used to assemble solid ancient comparanda for the practices and social realities that the parables presuppose. The picture of Jesus that emerges from these readings is that of a social prophet. The parables of Jesus, as symbols of social transformation, envisioned a transformed and alternative world. This world, for Jesus, was the kingdom of God.
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The Parables of Jesus the Galilean: Stories of a Social Prophet
Who do we meet in the stories Jesus told? In The Parables of Jesus the Galilean: Stories of a Social Prophet, a selection of the parables of Jesus is read using a social-scientific approach. The interest of the author is not the parables in their literary contexts, but rather the parables as Jesus told them in a first-century Jewish Galilean sociopolitical, religious, and economic setting. Therefore, this volume is part of the material turn in parable research and offers a reading of the parables that pays special attention to Mediterranean anthropology by stressing key first-century Mediterranean values. Where applicable, available papyri that may be relevant in understanding the parables of Jesus from a fresh perspective are used to assemble solid ancient comparanda for the practices and social realities that the parables presuppose. The picture of Jesus that emerges from these readings is that of a social prophet. The parables of Jesus, as symbols of social transformation, envisioned a transformed and alternative world. This world, for Jesus, was the kingdom of God.
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The Parables of Jesus the Galilean: Stories of a Social Prophet

The Parables of Jesus the Galilean: Stories of a Social Prophet

The Parables of Jesus the Galilean: Stories of a Social Prophet

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Who do we meet in the stories Jesus told? In The Parables of Jesus the Galilean: Stories of a Social Prophet, a selection of the parables of Jesus is read using a social-scientific approach. The interest of the author is not the parables in their literary contexts, but rather the parables as Jesus told them in a first-century Jewish Galilean sociopolitical, religious, and economic setting. Therefore, this volume is part of the material turn in parable research and offers a reading of the parables that pays special attention to Mediterranean anthropology by stressing key first-century Mediterranean values. Where applicable, available papyri that may be relevant in understanding the parables of Jesus from a fresh perspective are used to assemble solid ancient comparanda for the practices and social realities that the parables presuppose. The picture of Jesus that emerges from these readings is that of a social prophet. The parables of Jesus, as symbols of social transformation, envisioned a transformed and alternative world. This world, for Jesus, was the kingdom of God.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781498233712
Publisher: Cascade Books
Publication date: 08/09/2016
Series: Matrix: The Bible in Mediterranean Context , #9
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 368
File size: 674 KB

About the Author

Ernest van Eck is Professor of New Testament Studies in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is the author of Galilee and Jerusalem in Mark's Story of Jesus (1995). In addition, he has published more than fifty academic articles and written contributions to several multivolume works.

Table of Contents

Foreword John S. Kloppenborg ix

Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction xv

Abbreviations xxiii

1 Interpreting the Parables of the Galilean Jesus 1

2 The Sower (Mark 4:3b-8): In the Kingdom Everybody Can Have Enough 44

3 The Mustard Seed (Q 13:18-19): A Wild and Chaotic Kingdom Taking Over 64

4 The Feast (Luke 14:1613-23): A Kingdom Patron 84

5 The Lost Sheep (Luke 15:4-6): A Surprising Shepherd 117

6 The Vineyard Laborers (Matt 20:1-15): An Unexpected Patron 140

7 The Unmerciful Servant (Matt 18:23- 33): Honor Redefined 161

8 The Parable of the Tenants (Gos. Thorn. 65): A Surprising Non-violent Patron 184

9 The Merchant (Matt 13:45-46): An Outsider Becomes an Insider 208

10 The Friend at Midnight (Luke 11:5-8): A Shameless and Exploiting Neighbor 227

11 The Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 1.6:19-26): An Unwilling Patron 254

12 The Minas (Luke 19:120-24, Protesting for the Sake of the Kingdom 276

13 The Social Prophet from Galilee 300

Bibliography 315

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