TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ottenheijm,Eric
AU  - Poorthuis M.,
TI  - Parables in changing contexts: essays on the study of parables in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism 
T2  - Jewish and Christian perspectives series,
SN  - 9004417524
AV  - BL628.7 .P37 2020
U1  - 208 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Storytelling
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Parables
KW  - Religions
KW  - Art de conter
KW  - Aspect religieux
KW  - Paraboles
KW  - parables
KW  - aat
KW  - religions (belief systems, cultures)
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes
N2  - "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"--
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