TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crossan,John Dominic
TI  - The power of parable: how fiction by Jesus became fiction about Jesus 
SN  - 9780061875694
AV  - BT375.3 .C76 2012
U1  - 232.9/54066 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - HarperOne
KW  - Jesus Christ
KW  - Bible
KW  - N.T
KW  - Gospels
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc
KW  - Storytelling
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
N1  - Includes index
N2  - "One of the main ways Jesus taught people was through the use of parables. Through an exploration of the literary genre popular in the ancient world, distinguished Jesus scholar John Dominic Crossan dissects the versions we read in the Gospels to get back to what Jesus really intended to teach. Next, Crossan reveals how Jesus's use of parables inspired the Gospel writers themselves to come up with meaningful, metaphorical stories of Jesus to help them explain their own views of who they thought this Messiah really was. By unlocking the meaning and purposes of the Gospel's parables, we can arrive at a better portrait of this enigmatic and charismatic Jewish figure who transformed his world and the next two thousand years of history"--
ER  -