Biblical Parables and Their Modern Re-Creations: From "apples of Gold in Silver Settings" to "imperial Messages"

Offers a penetrating cross-cultural analysis of the enduring genre of parables, revealing a dramatic social, cultural, and political shift in the way we view the divine.
In Biblical Parables and Their Modern Re-creations, Gila Safran Naveh carefully charts the historical transformation of these deceptively simple narratives to reveal fundamental shifts in their form, function, and most significantly, their readers' cognitive processes. Bringing together for the first time parables from the Scriptures, the synoptic Gospels, Chassidic tales, and medieval philosophy with the mashal, the rabbinic parables commonly used to interpret Scripture, this book brilliantly contrasts the rhetorical strategies of ancient parables with more recent examples of the genre by Kafka, Borges, Calvino, and Agnon. By using an interdisciplinary approach and insights from current semiotic, linguistic, psychoanalytic, and gender theories, Naveh reveals a dramatic social, cultural, and political shift in the way we view the divine.

About the author

Gila Safran Naveh is Professor of Judaic Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati.

Product details

• Authors: Gila Safran Naveh
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.1999
• EAN: 9780791443972
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-4397-2
• No. of pages: 294
• Weight: 544 g
• Series: Suny Series on Modern Jewish L; Suny Modern Jewish Literature; Suny Series on Modern Jewish L
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures