Parables in Changing Contexts - Essays on the Study of Parables in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism

In Parables in Changing Contexts, new venues in the comparative study of parables are addressed by scholars of Judaism, New Testament, Buddhism and Islam. Essays cover parables in the synoptic Gospels, Rabbinic midrash, and parabolic tales and fables in the Babylonian Talmud.

About the author

Eric Ottenheijm (1961) is Assistant Professor for Jewish Studies and Biblical Literature at Utrecht University. His publications cover early Christianity in its relation to Judaism, in particular the Gospel of Matthew, and legal traditions and parables in Rabbinic literature. Currently he leads a project on the comparative study of Jewish and Christian parables, 'Parables and the Partings of the Ways' (2014-2020).

Marcel Poorthuis, Ph.D. (1992), teaches interreligious dialogue at the Tilburg School of Catholic Theology. His dissertation dealt with the French-Jewish philosopher Immanuel Levinas. He published about Catholicism, Judaism, Buddhism and Islam. He is co-editor of Jewish and Christian Perspectives.

Product details

• Assisted by: Eric Ottenheijm (Editor), Marcel Poorthuis (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.2019
• EAN: 9789004416963
• ISBN: 978-90-04-41696-3
• No. of pages: 356
• Weight: 688 g
• Series: Jewish and Christian Perspecti
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity