PARABLES AND CONFLICT IN THE HEBREW BIBLE by Jeremy Schipper ( 9780521764629 )

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Title:

PARABLES AND CONFLICT IN THE HEBREW BIBLE

By:

Jeremy Schipper

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Hardback

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0521764629

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

1 April, 2009

Pages:

184

Description:

This book argues that the parables function to help create, intensify, and justify judgments and hostile actions against their audiences.

Synopsis:

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.

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