Biblical Parables and Their Modern Re-Creations: From 'Apples of Gold in Silver Settings' to 'Imperial Messages'.

Naveh, Gila Safran.

ISBN 10: 0791443981 / ISBN 13: 9780791443989

Edité par State University of New York Press, Albany, 2000

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Octavo, paper covers, xviii, 294 pp., tables, notes, bibliography, index.

N° de réf. du vendeur 16472

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Biblical Parables and Their Modern Re-Creations: From 'Apples of Gold in Silver Settings' to 'Imperial Messages'.
• Éditeur: State University of New York Press, Albany
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0791443981
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780791443989
• Reliure: Softbound
• État de l'article: Very Good

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Synopsis

Offers a penetrating cross-cultural analysis of the enduring genre of parables, revealing a dramatic social, cultural, and political shift in the way we view the divine.

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.

À propos de l?auteur

Gila Safran Naveh is Professor of Judaic Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Cincinnati.