Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Cliffs Of FallISBN13:9781556358234ISBN10:1556358237Author:Crossan, John Dominic (Author)Description:When John Dominic Crossan's Book, In Parables: The Challenge Of The Historical Jesus, Was Published In 1973, It Was Heralded As A Major Development In Research Both On The Parables And On The Historical Jesus This Was Due Not Only To Its Sophisticated Use Of Historical, Literary, And Philosophical Disciplines But Also To The Sensitive Way In Which They Were Combined And To The Novel Insights That Resulted When This Combination Was Focused On Individual Parables The Present Book Continues Most Directly And Explicitly The Study Initiated By In Parables And May Be Regarded As Bringing That Earlier Volume Up To Date On Three Major Issues Conceptually, The Emphasis On Metaphor From In Parables Has Led To The Discussion Of Polyvalence, Or Semantic Pluralism, In Jesus's Parables Pluralistic Meaning Is An Intensely Paradoxical Concept And It Raises Issues That Touch The Very Roots Of Our Consciousness And Our Reality Metaphor Is Now No Longer A Clearing Within The Forest Of Language But Is Rather The Very Ground Of That Language Itself Any Given Metaphor Illumines And Reveals The Radical Metaphoricity Of All Reality Philosophically, The Question Is Raised Whether The Polyvalence Inherent In Metaphor, Along With The Critically Iterated Claims For Its Untranslatability, May Be Better Explained As A Surplus Of Meaning, Or As An Absence Of The Meaning, A Refusal Of Canonical Meaning Which Is Then The Necessary But Negative Basis For The Plurality Of Meanings And The Abiding Fecundity Of Interpretations Exegetically, As Specific Example And Deliberate Narratival Metaphor Of The Entire Book, Jesus's Serenely Pastoral Parable Of The Sower, With Its Specified Triad Of Gains, Its Plurality Or Polyvalence Both Of Failure And Success, Is Centrally Discussed As Textual Focus For The Volume John Dominic Crossan Is Professor Emeritus Of Religious Studies At Depaul University, Chicago He Has Written Twenty Books On The Historical Jesus In The Last Thirty Years, Four Of Which Have Become National Religious Bestsellers: The Historical Jesus (1991), Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (1994), Who Killed Jesus? (1995), And The Birth Of Christianity (1998) He Is A Former Co-Chair Of The Jesus Seminar, And A Former Chair Of The Historical Jesus Section Of The Society Of Biblical Literature, An International Scholarly Association For Biblical Study Based In The United States Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:WIPF & STOCK PUBLPublication Date:2008-03-01Weight:0.36 lbsDimensions:0.3'' H x 8.48'' L x 5.58'' WNumber of Pages:120Language:English
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Book Title: Cliffs of Fall : Paradox and Polyvalence in the Parables of Jesus
Item Length: 8.5in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 5.5in
Author: John Dominic Crossan
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Biblical Studies / Jesus, the Gospels & Acts, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / General, Biblical Référence / General, Biblical Studies / General
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication Year: 2008
Genre: Religion
Item Weight: 6.1 Oz
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
