The Rabbinic Parables and Jesus the Parable Teller

by David Flusser

First published in German as Die rabbinschen Gleichnisse und der Gleichniserz hler Jesus in 1981--and now translated into English for the first time--this seminal work by Professor David Flusser remains an important and unparalleled contribution on Jesus as a storyteller in the Jewish rabbinic tradition. Using a literary approach to study extant rabbinic parables, he argues that Jesus' parables belong to a genre that exists only in rabbinic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496488369
• ISBN13: 9781496488367
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Hendrickson Academic
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"