Yesus Sebagai Pencerita: Perspektif Sastra Dari Perumpamaan
Several literary features of Jesus’ parables are noteworthy. In some respects Matthew’s recorded parables differ from Luke’s in presenting colorless sketches. Luke’s parables, on the other hand, are vivid and full of color.
Simon J. Kistemaker
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Die gelykenisse van Jesus: Allegorieë of simbole van sosiale transformasie?
The parables of Jesus: Allegories or symbols of social transformation? This article reflects on a possible methodology that can be used to interpret the parables of Jesus preserved in the Synoptics (and the Gospel of Thomas).
Ernest van Eck
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Transadapting fable into a parable for Indonesian Muslim children: Strategies and impacts
The demand for domestication and localization of children’s literature compels translators to not only translate the texts but also transadapt them. Significant problems arise when the texts have to fit the cultures and religions of the target users ...
SF. Luthfie Arguby Purnomo +7 more
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Interpreting the parables of the Galilean Jesus: A social-scientific approach
This article proposes a methodology for interpreting the parables of Jesus. The methodology put forward has as starting point two convictions. Firstly, the difference between the context of Jesus’ parables as told by Jesus the Galilean in 30 CE and the ...
Ernest van Eck
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„Idź i pracuj w mojej winnicy” (Mt 21,28). Praca w przypowieściach Ewangelii synoptycznych
Parables occupy a significant place in Jesus’ prophesizing and teachings about the Kingdom of God. One of their characteristic traits, as a literary genre, are references to Jesus’ and His listeners’ daily lives.
Paweł Podeszwa
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The Parables of Jesus Christ in the “Ladder” of John of Sinai (based on the Russian Translation of Optina Pustyn) [PDF]
The article examines the Gospel parables included in the text of the Ladder by John of Sinai which are the most important symbolic clues to understand the meaning of the book’s fragments.
Popova, Tatiana G.
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Animals, Sages and Saints: Alfonso Vagnone’s Rhetorical Strategy in Chinese Context
Around 1632, while stationed in Shanxi Province (China), the Italian Jesuit Alfonso Vagnone published a pedagogical treatise entitled On the Education of Children (Tongyou jiaoyu) on which he had worked for several years.
Sha Liu
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Representations of Christ’s parables in Serbian medieval churches: The case of Dečani [PDF]
The article examines the six parables included in the painted decoration of the Monastery of Dečani. The soteriological and eschatological content of the four parables depicted in the parecclesion of Saint Nicholas leads to the conclusion that it was ...
Mantas Apostolos G.
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Using Parables to Teach Marketing
A simple story told through a parable can be an effective pedagogical tool for teaching important marketing concepts, ideas, and lessons. By using parables that describe characters, situations, and images that are familiar and easy to understand ...
Timothy R. Graeff
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Luke’s parables and the purpose of Luke’s Gospel
Do the parables of Luke hold the key to an understanding of the overall purpose of Luke’s Gospel? This question is pursued by Greg W Forbes (2000) in a book entitled The God of Old: The role of the Lukan parables in the purpose of Luke’s Gospel ...
D. Reinstorf
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