The Scandal of the Gospels : Jesus, Story, and Offense
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ISBN-10
0195084284
ISBN-13
9780195084283
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
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Oxford University Press Inc
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GB
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GB
Publication Date
Mar 10th, 1994
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216 Pages
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467 grams
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23.50 x 15.70 x 2.00 cms
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Bible readings, selections & meditations
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McCracken argues that the gospels are in an important sense `occasions for offence', and that the Jesus of the gospels is a scandal (skandalon in the original Greek) and never more scandalous than when he speaks in parables. McCracken seeks to recover the gospels' narrative sense of Jesus as skandalon.
This book argues that the gospels are in an important sense "occasions for offense." The Jesus of the gospels is a scandal (skandalon, in the original Greek) and he is never more scandalous than when he is speaking in parables. Interpreters of the gospels over the centuries have consistently labored to domesticate the offense or to eliminate it entirely. David McCracken, focusing on parables, Matthew''s narrative contexts, and the gospel of John, seeks to recover the gospels'' sense of Jesus as skandalon. To this end, he enlists the help of Kierkegaard, the philosopher of offense, and to a lesser extent that of Bakhtin, both of whom prove to be surprisingly apt conversation partners for the evangelists.
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