Jesus and His Jewish Parables

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by Brad H. Young

eBook: approx. 350 pages (PDF Formats*)

Jesus and His Jewish Parables presents a fresh approach to the Gospel parables and their rabbinic counterparts. The author, Dr. Brad H. Young, demonstrates that parables must be studied as a unique genre of teaching which is preserved only in rabbinic literature and in the Gospels. The new evidence the author cites from early Jewish texts will necessitate a re-evaluation of Jesus’ message and his relationship to the Jewish people. Jesus was Jewish and his parables must be studied within the context of early Jewish thought and literature.

While the book is designed to reach scholars, pastors and educated lay people, everyone who desires to understand the meaning of the words of Jesus will be challenged and will benefit from a careful reading of Dr. Young’s Jesus and His Jewish Parables.

The parables of Jesus have inspired preachers, poets and believers through the ages. With the arrival of the Enlightenment, some scholars began to look at the parables in their Jewish setting. Yet much of this scholarship is tainted with anti-Jewish prejudice. This ignorance and prejudice concerning the Judaism of Jesus’ day continues to be perpetuated today in many Bible colleges and seminaries.

It is against this background that Brad Young has written his Jesus and His Jewish Parables. From the outset he argues that the best way to understand what Jesus was teaching in his parables is to try to hear him as he spoke to his people. The author argues that this can best be done by analyzing the parables of Jesus together with those told by other rabbis of his day.

—David Pileggi, from his “Book Review: Brad Young’s Jesus and His Jewish Parables,” Jerusalem Perspective 21 (1989).

Jesus and His Jewish Parables is an important step in understanding the rabbinic context within which Jesus presented his parables. Dr. Young’s knowledge of the Jewish background of Jesus’ parables is astonishing. This, and his gift of analysis and synthesis, created a wonderful book.
—David Flusser, from his “Book Review: David Flusser’s Personal Perspective on Brad Young’s Jesus and His Jewish Parables,” Jerusalem Perspective 21 (1989).

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