The Rabbinic Parables and Jesus the Parable Teller

The Rabbinic Parables and Jesus the Parable Teller\n\nThe Rabbinic Parables and Jesus the Parable Teller\n\nFirst published in German as Die rabbinschen Gleichnisse und der Gleichniserz\u00E4hler Jesus in 1981\u2014and now translated into English for the first time\u2014this seminal work by Professor David Flusser remains an important and unparalleled contribution on Jesus as a storyteller in the Jewish rabbinic tradition. Using a literary approach to study extant rabbinic parables, he argues that Jesus\u2019 parables belong to a genre that exists only in rabbinic literature and the New Testament. In order to analyze the theology behind Jesus\u2019 parables, we need to understand them as a first-century literary art form. In a summary of the book, Flusser writes: \u201CI am ?rmly convinced with fellow researchers that it is possible to get reasonably close to the original wording of Jesus\u2019 teaching. But this is only the case when the otherwise usual method of literary criticism g