{"product_id":"poet-peasant-through-peasant-eyes-combined-edition-33511","title":"Poet \u0026 Peasant\/Through Peasant Eyes (Combined Edition)","description":"This volume is a combined edition of *Poet and Peasant* and *Through Peasant Eyes*, Kenneth Bailey’s intensive studies of the parables in the gospel of Luke.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBailey begins by surveying the development of allegorical, historical-eschatological, aesthetic, and existential methods of interpretation. Though figures like Julicher, Jeremias, Dodd, Jones, and Via have made important advances, Bailey sees the need to go beyond them by combining an examination of the poetic structures of the parables with a better understanding of the Oriental culture that informs the text.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBailey’s work within Middle Eastern peasant culture over the last twenty years has helped him in his attempt to determine the cultural assumptions that the teller of the parables must have made about his audience. The same values which underlay the impact of the parables in Christ’s time, Bailey suggests, can be discovered today in isolated peasant communities in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq. Because time has made almost no impact in these cultural pockets, it is possible to discern, for example, what it meant 2,000 years ago for a friend to come calling at midnight, or for a son to ask for his inheritance prior to his father’s death.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eIn addition to illuminating the cultural framework of the parables, Bailey offers an analysis of their literary structure, treating the parabolic section as a whole as well as its individual components. Through its combination of literary and cultural analyses, Bailey’s study makes a number of profound advances in parabolic interpretation.  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e*\u003cstrong\u003ePart One: INTRODUCTION\u003c\/strong\u003e*  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 1. THE PROBLEM AND THE TASK  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Unfinished Work  \u003cbr\u003e Major Trends in Recent Parabolic Interpretation  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e (1) The Historical-Eschatological: Dodd and Jeremias  \u003cbr\u003e (2) Jones: Parables as Art  \u003cbr\u003e (3) Linnemann and Via: The Existential Perspective  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Reaction and Assessment: A Remaining Task  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 2. METHODOLOGY (1): THE CULTURAL PROBLEM  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The Basic Problem: Cultural Foreignness  \u003cbr\u003eA Review of Types of Solutions to the Cultural Problem  \u003cbr\u003eOriental Exegesis: A Proposal  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eA definition of \"Oriental exegesis\"  \u003cbr\u003eAncient literature: its importance and the exegete's problem in assessing it  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The contemporary Middle Eastern peasant and his oral tradition as a tool for recovering the culture of the parables  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The archaic nature of his life style Past attempts at gleaning insights from Middle Eastern peasantry  \u003cbr\u003e The unfinished task: its method and its controls  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The significance of the Oriental versions for exegesis  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Discerning the Theological Cluster  \u003cbr\u003e Summary and Conclusions   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e3. METHODOLOGY (2): FOUR TYPES OF LITERARY STRUCTURES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE INTERPRETATION OF PARABLES   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eA Review of Past Scholarship on the Question of Literary Structures  \u003cbr\u003eA Definition of Terms  \u003cbr\u003eFour Types of Literary Structures in the New Testament  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Type A—Inverted Prose  \u003cbr\u003e Type B—Seven Poetical Forms  \u003cbr\u003e Type C—Poetry Encased in Prose  \u003cbr\u003e Type D—The Parabolic Ballad  \u003cbr\u003e Summary and Conclusions   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e*\u003cstrong\u003ePart Two: AN ANALYSIS OF FOUR PARABLES AND TWO POEMS IN THE TRAVEL NARRATIVE OF LUKE\u003c\/strong\u003e*  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e1. THE LITERARY OUTLINE OF THE TRAVEL NARRATIVE (JERUSALEM DOCUMENT): Luke 9:51-19:48  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e2. EXEGESIS OF LUKE 16:1-13  \u003cbr\u003e The Unjust Steward (16:1-8)  \u003cbr\u003e The Poem on Mammon and God (16:9-13)  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e3. EXEGESIS OF LUKE 11:5-13  \u003cbr\u003e The Friend at Midnight (11:5-8)  \u003cbr\u003e The Parable\/Poem on a Father's Gifts (11:9-13)  \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e4. EXEGESIS OF LUKE 15  \u003cbr\u003e The Lost Sheep and the Lost Coin (15:4-10)  \u003cbr\u003e The Father and the Two Lost Sons (15:11-32)   \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eCONCLUSIONS","brand":"Koorong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51565121306911,"sku":"9780802819475","price":59.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/8981\/8143\/files\/9780802819475_743.jpg?v=1769219187","url":"https:\/\/koorong.com\/products\/poet-peasant-through-peasant-eyes-combined-edition-33511","provider":"Koorong","version":"1.0","type":"link"}