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LE01¡@Modern Interpretation of the Parables of Jesus (2 credits)

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Lecturer: Lanfranco FEDRIGOTTI

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Description:

  1. Pre-Juelicher interpretation of parables

  2. Adolf Juelicher: parable, allegory, and the unum tertium comparationis

  3. Charles H. Dodd: the Kingdom reference

  4. Joachim Jeremias and the "ten laws of transmission" of Traditionsgeschichte

  5. Form criticism, redaction criticism and parable exegesis

  6. The New Hermeneutic: fusion of horizons and hermeneutical spiral

  7. Structuralism and actantial analysis 

  8. Post-structuralist Reader-Response exegesis

  9. The seven steps of an integral parabolic exegesis:

    10. 9.1 The parable is a story both true-to-life and paradoxical

    9.2 The parable is a story with a chiastic or parallel literary structure

    9.3 The parable is a story with a triadic narrative structure

    9.4 The parable is a story demanding a single-multiple, emotional-ethical response

    9.5 The parable is a story addressing an historical situation

    9.6 The parable is a story challenging humans to conversion to God in Christ

    9.7 The parable is a discriminating language-event that either saves or condemns

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Reference:

  1. CARLSTON C.E., The Parables of the Triple Tradition (Philadelphia: Fortress Press 1975). 

  2. CROSSAN J.D., Cliffs of Fall: Paradox and Polyvalence in the Parables of Jesus (New York: Seabury Press 1980). 

  3. DODD C.H., The Parables of the Kingdom, revised edition (New York: Charles ScribnerÕs Sons 1961).

  4. DONAHUE J.R., The Gospel in Parable: Metaphor, Narrative, and Theology in the Synoptic Gospels (Philadelphia: For- tress Press 1988). 

  5. FONCK L. (transl. from the 3rd German edition by Leahy E. & ed. by O'Neil G.), The Parables of the Gospel, An Ex- egetical and Practical Explanation (New York: Frederick Puster 1914). 

  6. FUNK R.W., Parables and Presence (Philadelphia: Fortress Press 1982). 

  7. GREGORY THE GREAT ST. (transl. Nora Burke) , Parables of the Gospel (Chicago-Dublin-London: Scepter 1960). 

  8. JEREMIAS J., The Parables of Jesus (transl. HOOKE S. H. from the German Die Gleichnisse Jesu 6th edition 1962) (New York: Crossroad 1981). 

  9. JUELICHER A., Die Gleichnisreden Jesu, 2 vols. (Tuebingen: K/C.B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck] 1888, 1899-1910). 

  10. LAMBRECHT J., Once More Astonished: The Parables of Jesus (New York: Crossroad 1981). 

  11. PERKINS P., Hearing the Parables, A Commentary on the Parables of Jesus (Minneapolis: Fortress Press 1989).

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Note:

Not offered this year