The goal of this book is to suggest that Jesus as a creative artist was heavily influenced by the Hebrew Bible's Book of Proverbs.

Autorentext

Carole J. Lambert is Professor of English at Azusa Pacific University in California. In addition to four National Endowment for the Humanities grants, she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research in Brussels, Belgium. Among other books and articles, she is the author of Is God Man s Friend? Theodicy and Friendship in Elie Wiesel s Novels, Ethics after Auschwitz? Primo Levi s and Elie Wiesel s Response, and Against Indifference: Four Christian Responses to Jewish Suffering during the Holocaust (C. S. Lewis, Thomas Merton, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, André and Magda Trocmé). She earned her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Berkeley.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments - Introduction - The Importance of Wisdom - Parables and Proverbs - Jesus' Hebrew Bible Sources for His Parables - Jesus Speaking Wisdom as Wisdom - Reflections on Jesus' Parabolic Wisdom - What Shaped Jesus' Artistry? - How Might Jesus Have Become an Author? - Why Did Jesus Draw from the Book of Proverbs? - How Did Jesus Respond to Conventional Proverbial Wisdom? - Conclusion - List of Parables - Index.