Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten
Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten
ISBN: 978-88-7653-637-3
Verlag: Peeters Publishers
Some of the most profound teachings of Jesus are found in his parables. This book hopes to bring out these teachings, with particular attention paid to the immediate contexts in which Luke puts his parables. These contexts, sometimes only just a sentence and sometimes originating from Jesus as well as from Luke, give the reader an essential guide to the sense of the parables. The nature of a parable, or ‘comparison’, is, by general agreement of exegetes, very often open to more than one interpretation. Considering the manner of the handing on of parables from the time of Jesus to the time of Luke, one can expect that the parables, so often repeated and adjusted to many different circumstances, will have a lesson to give as the later authors thought would best fit the needs of their audiences. It is in this sizing up the inner possibilities of the parables to have them speak winningly to their audiences, together with the freedom belonging to an author and his desire to remain faithful to the mind of Jesus – it is with a view to these factors that we strive to interpret Luke’s presentation of a large number of Jesus’ parables.
