Parables in Changing Contexts
Essays on the Study of Parables in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism
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Word Count
87,500 words, Guess
Page Count
350 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139789004416963
- ISBN-10900441696X
- Library of Congress Control Number2019044667
- OCLC Control Number1112138374
- Better World Books9789004416963
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL38045498M
Classifications
- LCCBL628.7.P37 2019
- LCCBL628.7 .P37 2020
Description
"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"--
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