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Parables and Conflict in the Hebrew Bible
Author(s): Jeremy Schipper (Author)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date: 13 Sept. 2012
- Language: English
- Print length: 184 pages
- ISBN-10: 1107407540
- ISBN-13: 9781107407541
Book Description
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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Book Description
This book argues that the parables function to help create, intensify, and justify judgments and hostile actions against their audiences.
