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Biblical parables and their modern re-creations : from "Apples of gold in silver settings" to "Imperial messages" / Gila Safran Naveh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Naveh, Gila Safran.
- Series:
- SUNY series on modern Jewish literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parables--History and criticism.
- Parables.
- Bible--Parables.
- Bible.
- Jewish parables--History and criticism.
- Jewish parables.
- Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- The nature and structure of parables
- Biblical parables : the parable of the poor man's ewe lamb
- Synoptic gospel parables : the parable of the marriage feast
- Rabbinic parables : the parable of the king's banquet
- Chassidic parables : two kinds of faith
- Wisdom lost : modern parables
- Franz Kafka : an imperial message
- Jorge Luis Borges : the parable of Cervantes and The Quixote
- Italo Calvino : cities and signs
- S.Y. Agnon : befor the Kaddish
- Toward a conclusion : "Some fabulous yonder."
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-283) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0791443973
- 0791443981
- OCLC:
- 40734851
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