A Word Fitly Spoken: Context, Transmission, and Adoption of the Parables of JesusThis book compares New Testament and Rabbinical texts in order to recover the oral tradition accompanying the written Biblical text. Although New Testament Greek is a hellenistic idiom, it reflects a Semitic rather than a hellenistic culture. Therefore, Culbertson looks to Jewish sources in order to understand the Greek text, rather than to the philosophical, methodological, and literary sources of hellenistic culture. The author uses specific examples to illustrate various literary theories and to prove the value of a Listener Response Analysis of Gospel texts. A dozen parables are discussed in detail. |
Contents
Contextuality Matthew 729 | 1 |
The Hermeneutical Location of Paradise | 25 |
Halakhic Midrash as Parable Deuteronomy 2319 | 53 |
The Impact of Cumulative Parables Strings of Pearls Matthew 13353 | 85 |
Pancultural Adaptations He Who Never Lifts His Gaze Will Never Know the Truth Matthew 25112 | 119 |
Unexpected Literary Forms The Fish Who Paid Taxes Matthew 172427 and 221521 | 149 |
Shifts in Transmission Mites Motes and Mistakes Matthew 715 | 187 |
Parables with a Foreign Nimshal A Skeleton in the Kings Closet Matthew 214244 | 219 |
Proverbs 2511 A Word Fitly Spoken | 285 |
Selections from Haim bar Bezalels Iggeret haTiyyul | 293 |
The HalfSheqel Offering in the Second Temple Period | 297 |
Bibliography | 309 |
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Listener Response Wedding Feasts and Wineskins Matthew 91417 | 257 |
Epilogue | 283 |
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Common terms and phrases
According Aggadah Aqiba Aramaic Avot Baba Batra Berakhot Bereshit Rabbah biblical text blessed BT Baba Buber capitation tax catena chap Christian coin context culture David Deut Deuteronomy Devarim disciples Eliezer example exegesis eyes father fish Flusser garment Ginzberg God's Gospel Greek halakhah halakhic half-sheqel offerings Hebrew Holy human ibn-Ezra interpretation Israel Jastrow Jerusalem Jesse Jesus Jewish Jews Joseph Judah Judaism judge king Lieberman listener Lord Luke Maimonides Margulies mashal Matt Matthean Matthew meaning metaphor Midrash Midrash ha-Gadol Moses Neusner nimshal one's parable parallel Peshitta Pharisees phrase piyyut priest prophets Prov Proverbs Psalm rabbinic literature Rashi reference sages Samuel Sanhedrin Scripture Second Temple Second Temple period Sefer sense Shabbat Sheqalim sheqel Shimeoni Shir ha-Shirim Rabbah Sifrei Solomon Steinsaltz story symbol Talmud teacher teaching Testament tion Torah tradition translation understand verse vineyard wine wineskins words Yalqut Yohanan ben Zakkai yoke