The Priest and Levite as Temple Representatives (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781666771404)

The parable of the good Samaritan is well-known, yet scholarship has not plumbed the depths of its meaning within its first-century Palestinian context. For the majority of Christian history, the parable has suffered either from extreme allegorical treatments or from unimaginative readings limiting the parable to a single-point example story of virtue. A creative reading employing social and historical methods generates a refreshing telling of the story, within Jesus's context, whereby each variable, from the Samaritan to the priest and even the innkeeper, takes on representative forms, not only indicative of widespread concerns from Jesus's audience, but also becoming symbols of the eschatological age when the new temple supplants the old.

Author: Michael Blythe
ISBN-10: 1666771406
ISBN-13: 9781666771404
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Language: English
Published: 07/07/2023
Pages: 188
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.58lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d