In this Book
- Biblical Parables and Their Modern Re-creations: From "Apples of Gold in Silver Settings" to "Imperial Messages"
- Book
- 2000
- Published by: State University of New York Press
- Series: SUNY series in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture
summary
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. 'Representing a wide array of disciplines: economics, history, literature, political science, anthropology, and sociology, this book offers original examinations of the state of scholarship about Israel, as well as insightful assessments of contemporary Israeli society, politics, economy, and culture. The contributors review and analyze more than sixty recent publications, half of them in Hebrew or Arabic, showcasing important literature not readily accessible to European and North American readers. Continuing the tradition established by the preceding volumes, Review Essays in Israel Studies offers a rich and varied treatment of new scholarship and enhances our understanding of Israel studies today. 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.
Table of Contents
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- List of Tables
- pp. vii-viii
- List of Figures
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgements
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. xiii-xvii
- PART I: In Pursuit of Wisdom
- PART II: Apples of Gold
- PART III: Imperial Messages
- CHAPTER 6: Wisdom Lost: Modern Parables
- pp. 123-148
- CHAPTER 7: Franz Kafka: An Imperial Message
- pp. 149-158
- CHAPTER 9: Itala Calvina: Cities and Signs
- pp. 179-202
- TOWARD A CONCLUSION: "SOME FABULOUS YONDER"
- pp. 219-224
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- pp. 265-284
Additional Information
ISBN
9781438414348
MARC Record
OCLC
794701280
Pages
294
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No