... of Curlew River and in the evolution of the Church Parables. This departure from the exotic toward the security of a “comparable setting” was of paramount importance to Britten's creation of this genre. Britten Benjamin Albert Herring Noh Sumidagawa Noh play Alexander Peter E Ludwig Prince...

...This chapter examines Martin Luther King Jr.’s relationship to a group of liberal, largely white Protestant preachers and writers, including George Buttrick, and how he borrowed and adjusted their sermons and commentaries. In particular, it looks at several sermons on the parables that King...

...Slave parables are an important means of employing slave imagery for theological purposes. The large majority of these parables are transmitted in amoraic Midrashim, but some also appear in tannaitic Midrashim and in the Tosefta. This shows that the form of the slave parable was already known...

... scapegoating ceremony, and suggests that the priestly editors covered up their deep interest in politics and morals by writing in parables but dramatizing their teaching in vivid rituals. Deuteronomy Aaron ‘all Israel’ Assyria conquest of Samaria Blenkinsopp Joseph brothers Chronicler Ephraim tribe...

... the tragic perspective Milbank John Rilke Rainer Maria serenity prayer Brown Charles C Fox Richard Wightman Schleiermacher Friedrich Stone Ronald H beyond tragedy religious language as poetic Greek tragedy Thomas Mann Marianne Moore the parables of Jesus poetic insight inner spiritual world...

...This chapter explores resonances between Kafka’s parables and the parabolic aspects of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus, and accounts for the deployment of obscurity in the oblique modes of ethical teaching both writers adopt to train readers to think and live differently. It grapples with the central...

... valued the Bible as an aesthetic text. The chapter then instantiates how the Parables’ rhetorical strength is embedded in Lawrence’s narratives. Lastly, it examines how Lawrence’s artistic appropriation of Hebrew poetic forms and pagan imagery from the Book of Revelation restores pre-Christian image...

...In the mid‐1980s, Marie Luise Kaschnitz's poem “Zoon Politikon” reappeared in Wolfgang Harnisch's book on the parables of Jesus. Harnisch argues that the parables should be understood as metaphorical narratives. In order to illustrate his metaphor theory, Harnisch discusses the metaphors deployed...

...Introduces Joachim Jeremias's book The Parables of Jesus, which was first published in 1947 and strongly shaped the postwar scholarly discourse on New Testament parables. Oldenhage clarifies how the assumptions of historical criticism led to Jeremias's search for the parables...

...Considers the motivations underlying the widespread efforts in biblical scholarship to find similarities between the parables of Jesus and twentieth‐century literature. Oldenhage's focus is on the frequent comparison between the stories of Jesus and the stories of Franz Kafka. She argues...

...This chapter concludes by addressing the implications of this book for future work in New Testament scholarship. Oldenhage demonstrates what a post‐Holocaust reading of the parables of Jesus might look like. Focusing on the story of the Wicked Husbandmen, she seeks to develop an interpretation...

...The Parable of the Prodigal Son, one of the best-known stories in the Bible, has captured the imagination of commentators, preachers, and writers. This book explores the reconfiguring of the character of the Prodigal Son and his family in literature in English. It considers diverse literary periods...

...This chapter examines the ambience of the Pesikta d'Rav Kahana and its objectives by paying close attention to some of the Greek loanwords it uses and, more generally, to the nature of the language it employs in parables when speaking of the temple and the degree of intimacy...

... (‘The Carpenter’s Shop’), oil on canvas, 1849–50. © Tate, London 2019. Fig. 3.19 “The Lost Sheep.” The Parables of Our Lord. Illustrated by John Franklin. London, 1851. Courtesy the Ruari McLean Collection in the Robertson Davies Library, Massey College, the University of Toronto. Fig...

... of happiness is particularly heightened—namely, the stories about the births of John and Jesus in Luke 1-2; the parables of the lost sheep, lost coin, and lost son in Luke 15; and the Sermon on the Plain in Luke 6—The chapter demonstrates that the topsy-turvy happiness found in the narrative is “defined...

... concerned with religious and spiritual aspects, using narrative tales and parables that speak of general ethical principles and religious customs. They are a guide for people to stay on track with their lives and be mindful of their actions. What is interestingly about these writings is that they had both...

... of symbolic art, such as unconscious and fantastical symbolism, from Egyptian art as the symbolic “as such.” He then traces the dissolution of symbolic art through the sublime and “conscious symbolism” such as fables, analogies, and parables. He concludes by indicating symbolic art’s prosaic ends...

... works of fiction that include novels and short stories, including the early Patternist series, Kindred, Blindsight, Clay's Ark, the Xenogenesis and Parables series, and Fledgling....

...0 06 01 1994 One of the most difficult problems concerning the understanding of parables is raised in the Gospels themselves by Jesus’s comment about parables in response to the disciples’ puzzlement over parables in general and over the parable of the sower in particular. In Mark’s Gospel...

...0 26 05 2005 Journalists do not write articles. They write stories. A story has structure, direction, point, viewpoint. An article may lack these. Stories come in many kinds and are known in all cultures of the world. They include fairy tales, fables, parables, gospels, legends, epics and sagas...