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Parables and Conflict in the Hebrew Bible

by Jeremy Schipper

  • Paperback
  • 184 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.1 cm

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For scholars and students of biblical literature

Challenges common views on parables' true functions

You will gain fresh insights into biblical narratives

This book explores the role of parables in creating conflict in the Hebrew Bible.

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Parables and Conflict in the Hebrew Bible examines the intimate relationship between parables and conflict in the Hebrew Bible.

Challenging the scholarly consensus, Jeremy Schipper argues that parables do not function as appeals to change their audience's behavior. Nor do they serve to diffuse tensions in regards to the various conflicts in which their audiences are involved. Rather, the parables function to help create, intensify, and justify judgments and hostile actions against their audiences.

In order to examine how the parables accomplish these functions, this book pays particular attention to issues of genre and recent developments in genre theory, shifting the central issues in the interpretation of Hebrew Bible parables.

• Fills a significant gap in parable scholarship by proposing a fresh theory regarding parables' function in the Hebrew Bible
• Provides an overview of Hebrew Bible parables through close readings of all parables appearing within the Hebrew Bible's prose sections in conversation with selected parables appearing in its prophetic sections
• Advances the study of genre in relation to parable scholarship

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  • Author

    Jeremy Schipper

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    September 2012

  • Weight

    277g

  • Page Count

    184

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9781107407541

  • ISBN-10

    1107407540

  • Eden Code

    4038944

1. Breaking down parables: introductory issues
2. Devouring parables: Jotham's parabolic curse in Judges 9
3. Over-allegorizing and other Davidic misinterpretations in 2 Samuel 11–12
4. Changing face and saving face: parabolic petitions in 2 Samuel 14
5. Grasping the conflict: Ahab's negotiation of conflicts and parables in 1 Kings 20
6. Intellectual weapons: the parable's function in 2 Kings 14 and 2 Chronicles 25
7. Conclusions and implications for the study of Hebrew Bible parables.

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