| Jesus' Parable of the Rich Fool: Luke 12:13-34 Among Ancient Conversations on Death and Possessions Contributor(s): Fontein, Jan (Author), Rindge, Matthew S. (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004211705 ISBN-13: 9789004211704 Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Biblical Studies - Exegesis & Hermeneutics |
| Dewey: 226.806 |
| LCCN: 2011038833 |
| Series: Sbl - Early Christianity and Its Literature |
| Physical Information: 300 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Rindge reads Luke s parable of the Rich Fool (12:16 21) as a sapiential narrative and situates this parable within a Second Temple intertextual conversation on the interplay of death and possessions. A rich analysis of Jewish (Qoheleth, Ben Sira, 1 Enoch, Testament of Abraham) and Greco-Roman (Lucian, Seneca) texts reveals a web of disparate perspectives regarding how possessions can be used meaningfully, given life s fragility and death s inevitability and uncertain timing. Departing from standard interpretations of Luke s parable as a simple critique of avarice, Rindge explicates the multiple ways in which the parable and its immediate literary context (12:13 34) appropriate, reconfigure, and illustrate this contested conversation, and shows how these themes are chosen and adapted for Luke s own existential, ethical, and theological concerns. |