{"product_id":"the-power-of-parables-essays-on-the-comparative-study-of-jewish-and-christian-parables-9789004680029","title":"The Power of Parables: Essays on the Comparative Study of Jewish and Christian Parables","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Power of Parables documents the surprising ways in which Jewish and Christian parables bridge religion with daily life.  This 2019 conference volume rediscovers the original power of parables to shock and affect their audience, which has since been reduced by centuries of preaching and repetition. Not only do parables enhance the perspective on Scripture or the kingdom of heaven, they also change the sensory regime of the audience in perceiving the outer world. The theological differences in their applications appear secondary in view of their powerful rhetoric and suggest a shared genre.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Abbreviations  Contributors    Introduction   Eric Ottenheijm, Marcel Poorthuis and Annette Merz    Part 1: Parables and Realism  1 Genres of Parables: A Cognitive Approach   Gerd Theissen    2 A Parable of the Lost Temple? Archaeology, Intertextuality, and Rhetoric in Matt 21:33−46   Eric Ottenheijm and Boaz Zissu    3 Whom Do You Invite to the Table? Connections between the Dropsical Guest and the Meal Parables in Luke 14:1–24   Bart J. Koet    4 Parable and Ritual in Changing Contexts   Adiel Kadari    5 Sorting out “New and Old” (Matt 13:52) as Changing Money: Rabbinic and Synoptic Parables on Scriptural Knowledge   Eric Ottenheijm    6 The Rabbinic Mashal and the Ancient Fable: Prospects for a Changing Perspective   Justin David Strong    Part 2: Parables and Application  7 Parables between Folk and Elite   Tal Ilan    8 Money and Torah in Early Christian and Early Rabbinic Parables   Lieve M. Teugels    9 On Fields, the Poor Human Condition, and the Advantage of One Teacher: Four Rabbinic Parables in Avot de Rabbi Nathan   Marcel Poorthuis    10 Honouring Human Agency and Autonomy: Children as Agents in New Testament and Early Rabbinic Parables   Annette Merz and Albertina Oegema    11 Father’s Child: Fatherhood in the Rabbinic Parables of Song of Songs Rabbah   Tamar Kadari    12 Why Are Biblical Verses Not Quoted in Parables? A Cultural-Cognitive Explanation   Ronit Nikolsky    13 Moses’s Prayer and the Nimshal as Scriptural Mosaic   Arnon Atzmon    Part 3: Parables and Social Reality  14 Metaphors, Parables, and the Bildfeld   Petra von Gemünden    15 Jesus’s Parables Create Collective Identity: Parables of Growth through the Lens of Social Identity Theory   Ruben Zimmermann    16 Host and Guests: Some Features of the Eschatological Banquet in Rabbinic Parables and Gospels   Reuven Kiperwasser    17 New Testament and Rabbinic Slave Parables at the Intersection between Fiction and Reality   Catherine Hezser    18 Parables between Realism and Ideology   Anders Martinsen    19 Building a Fence Around the Vineyard: The Shepherd of Hermas’s Fifth Parable in Light of Comparative Parable Research   Martijn J. Stoutjesdijk    20 The Land of Israel as Diasporic Topos in Rabbinic Parables   Constanza Cordoni    Index of Ancient Sources  Index of Modern Authors  Index of Names and Subjects","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210871923031,"sku":"9789004680029","price":125.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-power-of-parables-essays-on-the-comparative-study-of-jewish-and-christian-parables-9789004680029","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}