Jesus' Parable of the Rich Fool: Luke 12:13-34 Among Ancient Conversations on Death and Possessions - Brossura

Rindge, Matthew S.

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ISBN 10: 1589836146 ISBN 13: 9781589836143

Casa editrice: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011

Riassunto

Rindge reads Luke's parable of the Rich Fool (12:16 21) as a sapiential narrative and situates this parable within a Second Temple intertextual conversation on the interplay of death and possessions. A rich analysis of Jewish (Qoheleth, Ben Sira, 1 Enoch, Testament of Abraham) and Greco-Roman (Lucian, Seneca) texts reveals a web of disparate perspectives regarding how possessions can be used meaningfully, given life's fragility and death's inevitability and uncertain timing. Departing from standard interpretations of Luke's parable as a simple critique of avarice, Rindge explicates the multiple ways in which the parable and its immediate literary context (12:13 34) appropriate, reconfigure, and illustrate this contested conversation, and shows how these themes are chosen and adapted for Luke's own existential, ethical, and theological concerns.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Matthew S. Rindge is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Gonzaga University. He is co-author of the forthcoming The History of Biblical Interpretation to 1835: A Reader (Westminster John Knox) and the recipient of the 2011 Paul J. Achtemeier Award for New Testament Scholarship.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Society of Biblical Literature
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1589836146
• ISBN 13: 9781589836143
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 299
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Germania