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Jesus, the Anthropologist: Patterns of Emplotment and Modes of Action in the Parables
Religions, 2022 This article uses a typology of action framework to analyze a selection of the gospels’ parables. It does so by connecting these parables to A. G. Haudricourt and C. Ferret’s research on the “anthropology of action”.
Vermander Benoit
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“So That They Might Turn”: The Possibility of Repentance in Jesus’ Parables
ReligionsSince the publication of Julicher’s Die Gleichnisreden Jesu, parable research has largely focused on the legitimacy of allegory, classification of form, and matters of meaning and polyvalence.
Leslie T. Hardin
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Parables as a Transcultural Tool for a Psychologist’s Work with the Requests of Parents of Children with Abnormal Development [PDF]
The Global Psychotherapist, 2023 Parables are considered to be an effective tool in a psychologist’s work with parents of children with abnormal development. As a kind of metaphor, parables actuate neurodynamic mechanisms of the personality’s reflection of actual life issues. The use of
Ganna Naydonova, Iryna Uninets
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Guidelines towards plausible interpretation of gospel parables
In die Skriflig, 2021 This study is undertaken against the backdrop of the polyvalence of parables and the resultant arbitrary conclusions reached by many interpreters of gospel parables. It is aimed to set guidelines towards plausible interpretations of these parables.
Aniedi M. Akpan, Francois P. Viljoen
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A realistic reading as a feminist tool: The Prodigal Son as a case study
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022 The parables of Jesus have historically been attributed with a plethora of interpretations. The first hearers of the parables of Jesus had native (emic) knowledge of the social realities embedded in the parables told by Jesus, that is, cultural scripts ...
Charel D. du Toit
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ANÁLISIS CONTRASTIVO ÁRABE-ESPAÑOL DE LA TRADUCCIÓN DE LOS REFRANES EN TAXI [PDF]
Transcultural Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2023 The parables are short units usually of unknown origin, but they are considered an essential pillar of the sociocultural heritage of a spoken community.
Saafan Saafan
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The parable of the mandarin [PDF]
EMBO reports, 2005 In September 2004, a PhD student and a postdoctoral fellow identified an insect neurohormone that had eluded scientists for more than 40 years. They were convinced that they had made a valuable discovery, after having read an editorial on the subject that was published the previous July in a major high‐impact journal, hereafter referred to as MHIJ. The
Vassart, Gilbert +3 more
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Logic and Parables: Do These Narratives Provide Arguments?
Informal Logic, 2012 We explore the relationship between argument and narrative with reference to parables. Parables are typically thought to convey a message. In examining a parable, we can ask what that message is, whether the story told provides reasons for the message ...
Trudy Govier, Lowell Ayers
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A decolonial biblical perspective on Jesus inspired by Fanon and Biko
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021 This paper makes an original contribution against the background of relevant postcolonial discourse by means of the methods of postcolonial and social-scientific biblical exegesis from the perspective of critical correlation. The main aim of the paper is
Jacobus Kok
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