Parables as Persuasive Devices

Die Autoren dieses Bandes fordern und erproben eine neue Perspektive auf die Gleichnisse Jesu, indem sie diese als Mittel zur Überzeugung und nicht nur als informative Geschichten betrachten. Sie untersuchen, wie diese Gleichnisse das Publikum emotional und intellektuell ansprachen und in ihrem ursprünglichen jüdischen und griechischen kulturellen Kontext nicht primär (be-)lehren, sondern überzeugen wollten.Lauri Thurén/Antti Kyytsönen/Katri Antin : Introduction: From a Proclamation to an Invitation to Dance - Towards a New Era in Parable Research

Lauri Thurén : How Does a Parable Function? On the Threshold of a Rhetorical Turn - Niilo Lahti: The Strategic Use of Metaphors in Argumentation by Parable - Cases in Point: Lightning & Vultures (Matthew 24:23-28) - Antti Kyytsönen: Is It Time to Get Emotional with the Parables of Jesus? - Katri Antin: Who can understand Jesus's parables? Parable audiences in Matthew 13 and Matthew 21-22 - Lauri Thurén, Antti Kyytsönen, Katri Antin: New Insights into the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant in Context.

Anders Martinsen: Eschatological Violence and Anger in Matt 18:23-35 - Samuel Tedder: Does the Persuasive Power of Some Parables of Jesus Depend on Their Connections with Israel's Scriptures? - Developing a Methodology with Matthew 13 - Ernest van Eck: The Historical Jesus behind the Text: Manipulated Parables and Theological Constructions - Lotta Valve: The Enigma of the Parable of the Automatic Seed (Mark 4:26-29) - Vesa Ollilainen: Stumbling Blocks or Cornerstones? The Parables of Jesus in Third Quest Studies.

Eric Ottenheijm: »Why do you teach them in parables«? Comparing the Synoptic and Rabbinic Parable Theory - Tobias Ålöw: Kingdom-Meshalim and Parables as Persuasive Narratives in the Tannaitic Tradition and the Gospel of Matthew - Lieve Teugels: What Difference does a Parable Make? The Rhetorics of the Parable of the Architect in its Early Jewish and Early Christian Versions - Albertina Oegema: The Ethics of Fatherly Happiness - A Narrative Ethical Analysis of the Parables in Luke 15:11-32 and Sifre Deut. 343 - Marcel Poorthuis: Parables about parables: the case of Cain and of Jewish mysticism - Ruben Zimmermann: On Fish and the Fishnet (Babr. Fab. 4, Matt 13:47-50, Gos. Thom. 8) - Animals as Characters in Jesus's Parables and Babrius's Fables - Serafim Seppälä: Parables in Ephrem the Syrian's Commentary on the Diatessaron.