ISBN:
9789004417526
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (VI, 350 Seiten)
Year of publication:
2020
Series Statement:
Jewish and Christian perspectives series volume 35
Series Statement:
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004407367
Series Statement:
Jewish and Christian perspectives series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Parables in changing contexts
Keywords:
Parables
;
Religions
;
Storytelling Religious aspects
;
Bibel
;
Gleichnis
;
Rabbinische Literatur
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Gleichnis
;
Rabbinische Literatur
;
Bibel Neues Testament
;
Parabel
;
Christentum
;
Judentum
;
Islam
;
Buddhismus
Abstract:
"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"
DOI:
10.1163/9789004417526
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