‘Parables in Changing Contexts’
Begin 2020 bracht het Parabelproject een wetenschappelijke bundel uit naar aanleiding van een sessie over parabels tijdens het 2015-congres van de European Association of Biblical Studies (EABS) in Cordoba, Spanje. De titel van de bundel is Parables in Changing Contexts. Essays on the Study of Parables in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism. De bundel is geredigeerd door Eric Ottenheijm en Marcel Poorthuis en uitgekomen in de serie Jewish and Christian Perspectives (vol. 35) van Brill.
Een Engelstalige omschrijving volg hieronder:
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.
Zie verder de website van Brill: https://brill.com/view/title/56286?contents=editorial-content
UPDATE: Reuven Kiperwasser schreef een enthousiaste review van het boek in Journal for the Study of Judaism. Zijn recensie eindigt met de volgende zin:
This volume bears witness to a new stage in the critical study of parables and portrays its initial steps. It will be most exciting to follow the dynamics of many of these promising endeavors. The volume will be particularly useful for scholars of parables in rabbinic and early Christian literature, as well as for students of biblical exegesis and researchers of late antiquity in general.
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