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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.

Storytelling --- Parables --- Religions --- Religious aspects --- Comparative religion --- Denominations, Religious --- Religion, Comparative --- Religions, Comparative --- Religious denominations --- World religions --- Civilization --- Gods --- Religion --- Exempla --- Homiletical illustrations --- Tales --- Allegories --- Fables --- 225*33 --- 291.8 --- 291.8 Bronnen van de godsdienst: openbaring in heilige boeken en traditie; religieuze beslissingen --- Bronnen van de godsdienst: openbaring in heilige boeken en traditie; religieuze beslissingen --- 225*33 Parabels. Gelijkenissen --- Parabels. Gelijkenissen --- Parables.

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Wesley Olmstead examines the parables of the Two Sons, the Tenants and the Wedding Feast against the backdrop of the wider Matthean narrative. He explores Matthew's characterization of the Jewish leaders, the people and the nations, and assesses the respective roles of Israel and the nations in the plot of Matthew's Gospel. Against the current of contemporary Matthean scholarship, Olmstead argues both that the judgement this trilogy announces falls upon Israel (and not only her leaders) and that these parables point to the future inclusion of the nations in the nation that God had promised to raise up from Abraham. Bringing both literary-critical and redaction-critical tools to bear on the texts at hand, Olmstead not only elucidates the intended meanings of this parabolic trilogy but also attempts to determine the responses they elicited from their first readers. Transcending Matthean scholarship, this book has implications for all Gospel studies.

Two sons (Parable) --- Wicked husbandmen (Parable) --- Great supper (Parable) --- Jews in the New Testament --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Bruiloftsmaal (Parabel) --- Feast [Parable of ] --- Festin des noces (Parabole) --- Gentiles in the New Testament --- Gentils dans le Nouveau Testament --- Great Feast (Parable) --- Guest who made excuses (Parable) --- Heidenen in het Nieuwe Testament --- Invités discourtois [Parabole des ] --- Joden in het Nieuwe Testament --- Juifs dans le Nouveau Testament --- King's son [Marriage of ] (Parable) --- Marriage of the king's son (Parable) --- Noces [Festin des ] (Parabole) --- Onwillige genodigden (Parabel) --- Supper [Parable of ] --- Unwilling guests (Parable) --- Wedding feast (Parable) --- Wedding garment (Parable) --- Bible NT. Gospels. Matthew --- 225*33 --- 226.2 --- 225*33 Parabels. Gelijkenissen --- Parabels. Gelijkenissen --- Husbandmen, Wicked (Parable) --- Wicked tenants (Parable) --- Wicked vinedressers (Parable) --- Feast, Parable of --- Great feast (Parable) --- Guests who made excuses (Parable) --- King's son, Marriage of (Parable) --- Supper, Parable of --- Evangelie volgens Matteüs --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Bible. N.T. Matthew XXI,28-XXII,14 --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Gentiles in the New Testament. --- Jews in the New Testament.