Location	Call Number	Status
1/F Collection	BT 375 .3 .Z56	Available

Table of Contents

• Preface and acknowledgments
• part I. Three approaches to parables.
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Understanding the parables over the past century : an overview of the history of research
• 3. Historical approaches : parables as media for remembering Jesus
• 4. Literary approaches : the parable genre-a new definition
• 5. Reader-oriented approaches : a playing field for polyvalent parables
• part II. How to interpret a parable.
• 6. Reading and analyzing parables
• 7. The lost sheep (Q/Luke 15:1-7) and the parables in Q
• 8. The mustard seed (Mark 4:30- 32) and the parables in Mark
• 9. The ten virgins (Matt. 25:1-13) and the parables in Matthew
• 10. The good Samaritan (Luke 10:30-35) and the parables in Luke
• 11. The dying and living grain (John 12:24) and the parables in John
• 12. The empty jar (Gos. Thom. 97) and the parables in Thomas

Notes

• ill.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-450) and indexes

Subjects

• Jesus Christ--Parables
• Parables--History and criticism

Author

• Zimmermann, Ruben, 1968-

Additional Title

• Puzzling the parables of Jesus

Publisher

• Fortress Press

Call Number

• BT 375 .3 .Z56

ISBN

• 0800699750
• 9780800699758

Content Type

• text

Carrier Type

• volume

Media Type

• unmediated

Permanent link to this record:

• https://cms.trccloud.hk/opac/bib/AOkY