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Collected Essays
Robert W. Funk
Edited with an Introduction by Bernard Brandon Scott
Robert Funk was the major seminal influence on parable
scholarship in the second part of the twentieth century. His work on parable as metaphor led to the understanding of Jesus' parables as world-shattering. But it went beyond the
question of metaphor: Funk redefined the form of the parable, made a substantial contribution to the argument that Jesus' parables originated in Greek, worked out a
scale for evaluating parables as compositions, and proposed a model for how parables gave birth to resurrection faith. The essays in this volume, brought
together for the first time, afford the reader a synoptic view of Funk's contribution—a contribution with which scholarship is only now beginning to deal.
“Contemporary study of the historical Jesus began with research on his parables. Contemporary research on those parables began with Robert Funk. Funk on Parables is not just about where we have been but a challenge for where we still must go.”
—John Dominic Crossan"Highly recommended for entry level courses on the parables ..." —Religious Studies Review
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Polebridge Press
Paperback, 240 pages
2006 ISBN 978-0-944344-99-6