{"id":3880,"date":"2008-02-08T00:20:55","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T05:20:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/jesuscreed\/2008\/02\/08\/every-now-and-then\/"},"modified":"2008-02-08T00:20:55","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T05:20:55","slug":"every-now-and-then","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2008\/02\/08\/every-now-and-then\/","title":{"rendered":"Every now and then …"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\u2026 a book comes along and you make a decision about its importance. This book, you decide, ends the need for a dozen or so other books on your shelves. You go to your shelf, pick up those books, put them in your \u201cTo Sell\u201d (or \u201cTo Give Away\u201d) stack, and put that one book on your shelf that replace the others. Yes, I\u2019ve got such a book for you:
\nKlyne Snodgrass, Stories with Intent<\/a>\"\"<\/em>, is such a book. If you purchase this book, you won\u2019t need another book on parables for at least a decade. It\u2019s available on Amazon right now for almost 40% off. Sure it\u2019s a big book, about 800 pages, but there are 32 parables \u2026 and he\u2019s got solid chps on interpreting parables, on parables in the ancient world, and a few charts at the back.
\nI know Klyne; he\u2019s been at this book for 20 years. He wrote this book for you: for those who want to study parables. It\u2019s not a theory, it\u2019s a handbook. If you want to know:
\nThe parable type
\nThe issues for interpretation
\nThe helpful primary source material (Bible, Jewish sources, Greco-Roman, early Christian, later Jewish \u2014 much of it cited right there)
\nThe parallels to this parable (if in the Gospels)
\nTextual features worth noting
\nCultural information worth knowing about
\nExplanation of parable with options and decisions on the issues
\nAdapting the parable
\nBibliography
\nIt\u2019s all here. Helpful, concise, accessible.
\nDid I say I like it?
\nI have a shelf of books on parables; I will keep them for one reason. I may have to write something that requires citing a variety of books on the parables. But, I\u2019m not kidding you, this may be the only book on parables a pastor or a student ever needs.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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