A complete range of modern approaches to interpreting the parables. Not only a textbook, but readable and accessible and as engaging to the general reader as to the scholar and minister.
The introducers' passionate, provocative, and personal engagements with the spirituality and the language of the text make the Bible come alive as a stunning work of literature and remind us of its overwhelming contemporary relevance.
Some move us to grateful responses to God. The parables ask us if there has been any real difference in our lives. — James Montgomery Boice The Parables of Jesus offers a scholarly yet simple explanation of all of Jesus’ parables.
The parables are rich with guidance, but sometimes they're hard to decipher. In this book, all of Jesus' parables and most of his parabolic sayings from the Synoptic Gospels are...
A clear and thorough introduction to the best known of Jesus' teachings, this much-needed text examines what parables are, why Jesus taught in parables, and the purpose and place of parables in the Gospel narratives.
Amy B. Jordan, James C. Hersey, Judith A. McDivitt, and Carrie D. Heitzler, “Reducing Children's Television-Viewing Time: A Qualitative Study of Parents and Their Children,” Pediatrics 118, no.
R. T. Kendall unwraps Jesus's simple stories one by one, uncovering profound meaning and offering fresh understanding of the purpose, promise, and paradox of the parables.
Sanders opposes the equation of sinners with people of the land ( Bousset , Hultgren , Pesch ) and sides with denial of connection ( Klausner , Finkelstein , Abrahams ) . 12 Healey , “ Am Ha'Arez , " Anchor 1 : 169 . 13 Ibid .
Outlines the parables of Jesus and discusses how each of the parables can be taught and preached.
-- James Montgomery Boice The Parables of Jesus offers a scholarly yet simple explanation of all of Jesus' parables. Boice captures the enduring message of each one and pastorally guides us in a proper response.
43Robert Detweiler, “After the New Criticism: Contemporary Methods of Literary Interpretation,” in Orientation by Disorientation: Studies in Literary Criticism and Biblical Literary Criticism, ed. Richard A. Spencer (Pittsburgh: ...