The Blind Men and the Elephant

The Blind Men and the Elephant

Author: John G. Saxe

Publisher: Enrich Spot Limited

Published: 2016-08-03

Total Pages: 34

ISBN-13: 988773943X

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The Blind Men and the Elephant is a story of a group of blind men who touch an elephant to learn what it is like. Each concludes that the elephant is like a wall, snake, spear, tree, fan or rope, depending on where they had touched. Their heated debate is never resolved. Re-telling this Eastern parable, an American poet, John Godfrey Saxe, introduced the story to a Western audience in 1872. The poem is the poet’s best remembered work.


All the Parables of Jesus

All the Parables of Jesus

Author: David M. Brown

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2012-07

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 1449751652

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Like yeast, parables are explosive stories of Jesus that invade our lives and transform us into citizens of the kingdom of God. But they are also cryptic, and that's where this book is useful. More than an explanation or interpretation of each parable, this definitive work is primarily an exercise in hermeneutics. In it, readers are taken through a process of discovering which sayings of Jesus are parables, problematic questions related to counting and categorizing them, and Jesus' rationale for speaking in parables. The work then analyzes four distinct ways that parables are structured and three levels at which they do their work in us. The final chapter presents parable-related hermeneutical guidelines, and the book ends with seven extensive Appendices and two Indexes. It is a "must read" for every biblical scholar!


The Parable of the Blind

The Parable of the Blind

Author: Gert Hofmann

Publisher: Verba Mundi

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781567925630

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A high-water mark of postwar German literature, a profoundly skeptical meditation on the fragility of human communities and the pitfalls and contradictions of making art. A knocking on the barn door drags us out of our sleep. No, the knocking isn't inside us, it's outside, where the other people are. With that, six blind beggars--ragged, profane, irascible--find themselves waking to yet another grim day in the dark. Today, however, something is different. Today these men have an appointment with a painter: they have been hired as models, to pose for Pieter Bruegel's grotesque masterpiece-in-the-making. With tremendous verbal ingenuity and black humor, Gert Hofmann's novel follows this tattered sextet's shambling progress across a landscape in 16th century Flanders, peopled by half-heard voices and unseen dangers, towards their ultimate encounter with the great, capricious artist, and (perhaps) their own immortality.


The Parables in Q

The Parables in Q

Author: Dieter Roth

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2018-05-17

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 0567684237

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Few New Testament topics have been discussed as often and as intensely as Q, the hypothesized second major source alongside the gospel of Mark for the gospels of Matthew and Luke, and the parables. And yet, no monograph to date has been devoted to considering the parables in Q. In addition to filling this gap in New Testament scholarship, Dieter T. Roth addresses the need to move scholarship on both Q and the parables forward along methodological and interpretive lines. Roth considers Q not as a text behind Matthew and Luke that needs to be reconstructed but rather as an intertext between Matthew and Luke that offered plots, characters, and images in parables that were taken up by Matthew and Luke and utilized in their own respective texts. In addition, Roth draws on recent parables research in his examination of the 27 parables in Q (two spoken by John the Baptist, one by the Centurion, and 24 by Jesus) in order to consider their purpose and function in this early Christian text.


The Parables of Jesus

The Parables of Jesus

Author: Paul Winton Saunders

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2022-10-09

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 179600927X

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Parables of Jesus examines Jewish customs during biblical times to reveal lessons on life, living, and walking with the Lord. You’ll encounter the figures that Jesus used in his stories: the unjust judge who neither feared God or man, the self-righteous Pharisee and the humble publican in the temple, the fickle children in the marketplace, the unforgiving servant, and others exhibiting traits as compassion, jealousy, and greed. Pastor Paul Saunders makes the point that Jesus was appalled with the hypocritical nature of Jewish religious leadership. They made a great show of righteousness, but their behavior was corrupt—and Jesus was not afraid to call it out. The parables are brilliant, relevant, pithy, and personally challenging. Jesus uses everyday activities, with which we are all familiar, to illustrate a deeper truth. Although numerous scholars have written about the parables of Jesus, this book takes a fresh approach, looking at them in context and exploring the relevance they have today.


Parables of Jesus

Parables of Jesus

Author: Wendy Bowen

Publisher: Manifest Publications

Published: 2022-12-05

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 1951280296

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This course will impart an in-context revelation of the Parables of Jesus, in order to know Him and understand His teachings so that you might apply them to your life and do them.


Stewards of Eden

Stewards of Eden

Author: Sandra L. Richter

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

Published: 2020-02-25

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 0830849270

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Sandra L. Richter cares about the Bible and the environment. Using her expertise in ancient Israelite society as well as in biblical theology, she walks readers through biblical passages and shares case studies that connect the biblical mandate to current issues. She then calls Christians to apply that message to today's environmental concerns.


The Parables and Similes of the Rabbis

The Parables and Similes of the Rabbis

Author: A. Feldman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-06-30

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1107640776

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This second edition of a 1924 volume gathers together and deals with Rabbinic metaphors, similes and parables taken from agricultural and pastoral life.


The Parables of Jesus

The Parables of Jesus

Author: Dominic Breeze

Publisher: Dreamstairway Books

Published: 2010-07

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1907091122

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This is a collection of 72 parables preached by Jesus, retold with explanations of their true meanings in modern terms.