Biblical parables and their modern re-creations
Subtitle: from "Apples of gold in silver settings" to "Imperial messages"
By: Gila Safran Naveh.
Series: SUNY series on modern Jewish literature and culture
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Albany, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Bible -- Parables; Parables -- History and criticism; Jewish parables -- History and criticism; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Description: "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 form the Scriptures, the synoptic Gospels, Chassidic tales, and medieval philosophy with the mashal, the rabbinic parables commonly used to interpret Scripture, this book 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-283) and index.