A Peasant Reading of the Parable of the Talents/Pounds: A Text of Terror?
| Title | A Peasant Reading of the Parable of the Talents/Pounds: A Text of Terror? |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 1993 |
| Authors | Rohrbaugh, Richard L. |
| Journal | Biblical Theology Bulletin: Journal of Bible and Culture |
| Volume | 23 |
| Pagination | 32-39 |
| Date Published | February 1993 |
| Abstract | A study of the social relations implied in the parable of the talents/pounds viewed in its narrative world. The study indicates that this parable is the product of imaginations socialized in the dynamics of an agrarian society, in contrast to those of the capitalist West. Key components of the world of the narrative include limited good, use-value, and exchange-value. The parable appears to be a warning not to those lacking adventurousness or industry, as frequently assumed in the West, but to those who mistreat the poor. |
| URL | http://btb.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/23/1/32 |
Treating a fragment of the parable in the so-called Gospel of the Nazoreans preserved by Eusebius (Theophania 22), coinciding with Matt. 25:14-40, ABCCBA, translating Eusebius as using the term "epanalepsis"
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