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"Calum Carmichael presents a new perspective on how parables unique to Luke's Gospel were composed. Providing literary and linguistic analyses, he demonstrates how Luke, like many of his contemporaries, absorbed the narrative legacy of the Hebrew Bible and used it to express ideas about Jesus"--
List of contents
Part I. Luke's Unique Parables: 1. Introduction; 2. Two debtors (Lk 7:36-42); 3. The good Samaritan (Lk 10:25-37); 4. The friend at midnight (Lk 11:5-13) Pater noster (Lk 11:1-4); 5. The rich fool (Lk 12:15-21); 6. The barren Fig tree (Lk 13:6-9); 7. Places of honor at a feast (Lk 14:1-11); 8. The lost sheep (Lk 15:1-7) The lost coin (Lk 15: 8-10); 9. The prodigal son (Lk 15:11-32); 10. The steward of unrighteousness (Lk 16:1-9); 11. The rich man and Lazarus (Lk 16:19-31); 12. The Widow and the unjust judge (Lk 18:1-8) The pharisee and the Tax Collector (Lk 18:9-14); 13. The pounds (Lk 19:1-27); 14. The wicked tenants (Lk 20:9-18); 15. Conclusion; Bibliography; Abbreviations: Luke's unique parables.
About the author
Calum Carmichael is Emeritus Professor of the Department of Comparative Literature at Cornell University and Associate Member of Cornell Law School. A recipient of fellowships from the John R. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies, he is the author, most recently, of The Sacrificial Laws of Leviticus and the Joseph Story (2017) and The Book of Numbers: A Critique of Genesis (2012), and editor of The Cambridge Companion to the Bible and Literature (2020).
