If you are thinking, "What another book on the parables?" then think again! Here's a single volume that judiciously surveys parables research, sketches the significance of Jesus' parables for each of the synoptic Gospels, analyzes the importance of the parables for understanding Jesus' ministry, and discusses how these parables would have been heard in their own contexts - all of this in readable prose that is fully conversant with scholarly discussion without bogging us down in that discussion. It is hard to imagine a better introduction to Jesus' parables than Stephen Wright's new book, but it also makes a welcome contribution with its emphases on story and narrative.' Joel B. Green, Professor of New Testament Interpretation, Fuller Theological Seminary

Stephen Wright

Preface and acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1 Laying the foundations

1 Eclipsing the stories of Jesus: from Reimarus to Jülicher

2 Recovering the stories of Jesus: from Wrede to the present

3 Jesus’ stories: tools for a fresh hearing

Part 2 Hearing the stories through the Gospels

4 Hearing the stories through Mark

5 Hearing the stories through Matthew

6 Hearing the stories through Luke

Part 3 Hearing the stories with the first listeners

7 Hearing the stories in Galilee

8 Hearing the stories on the way: 1

9 Hearing the stories on the way: 2

10 Hearing the stories in Jerusalem

Part 4 Gathering the echoes

11 Jesus the storyteller

Notes

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The book offers a fresh, historically plausible account of why Jesus spoke in parables and how this distinctive style of speech functioned in his ministry.Most books on the parables have tended to treat them as individual units to be interpreted rather than in a connected way as a consistent element within the ministry of the historical Jesus.

The book offers a fresh, historically plausible account of why Jesus spoke in parables and how this distinctive style of speech functioned in his ministry. Most books on the parables have tended to treat them as individual units to be interpreted rather than in a connected way as a consistent element within the ministry of the historical Jesus. Our understanding of the parables is a crucial element in our understanding of Jesus, and this book seeks to elucidate those connections in a way that takes account of some of the main advances in Jesus scholarship and parable scholarship over recent decades. The book is academically serious but written in an accessible way, and provides a solid basis for any who wish to draw on the model of Jesus in communicating Christian faith today.

Stephen I. Wright has been in the Anglican ministry since 1986 and now teaches New Testament, hermeneutics and preaching at Spurgeon's College, London. His previous publications include The Voice of Jesus: Studies in the Interpretation of Six Gospel Parables (Paternoster 2000) and Alive to the Word: A Practical Theology of Preaching (SCM 2010). He is also co-author of Preaching the Atonement (T&amp;T Clark 2005) and Preaching the Incarnation (Westminster John Knox 2010).

From Tom Wright's brother comes an in-depth study into the life of Christ focusing on Jesus the Storyteller

\["Want to discover how Jesus used parables, not just why?","You'll discover Jesus as a storyteller, as someone who captured imaginations","You'll discover a whole new way of approaching the parables of Jesus"\]

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- A rich and compelling portrait of Jesus as storyteller, set within a credible historical reconstruction of his aims and ministry.

- Stephen Wright is an expert on the parables and respected internationally for his books on interpreting and preaching the New Testament.

- Draws on the best in recent Jesus scholarship, as well as on contemporary literary, linguistic and sociological insights.

(Publisher's notes.)

Jesus The Storyteller

One of the most fascinating works of New Testament scholarship to appear in recent years. Stephen Wright begins with an overview of gospel, and in particular, parable interpretation from Reimarus's Fragments to the present day. His own approach is that of Narrative Criticism. In Part Two he considers how each of the three writers of the Synoptic Gospels present the parables. Then, in Part Three he looks at the Sitz im Leben of the parables divided into those told in Galilee, those while Jesus was travelling and, finally, the stories told in Jerusalem.

The particular approach of this book lifts the veil which sometimes shrouds the parables and obscures their meaning. To read his analysis of difficult parables such as the Tenants in the vineyard is to see the stories in a new light with deeper and sometimes quite different meaning. The author uses all his scholarly skill in doing this yet manages to convey his ideas in highly readable and accessible prose.

If you are only going to read one new book on New Testament theology this year then it should be this one.

Jesus the Storyteller

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