The Tenants in the Vineyard: Ideology, Economics, and Agrarian Conflict in Jewish Palestine

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Mohr Siebeck, 2006 - 651 páginas
John S. Kloppenborg gives a detailed analysis of one of the most difficult of Jesus' parables, the parable of the Tenants (Mark 12:1-12; Gospel of Thomas 65). He examines the ways in which Christians have typically read and mis-read the parable, and places the parable firmly in the context of the practices of ancient viticulture. The author models a new approach to the interpretation of the parables of Jesus. First, he critically engages the history of interpretation of the text, inquiring into the ideological interests that the parable has engaged during the history of its use in Christian churches and in political discourse. Second, he reconstructs the social world in which the parable was first told, in particular the economic, social, and legal aspects of ancient viticulture. He demonstrates that the parable of the Tenants has mostly been interpreted from the standpoint of those who wield social and political power, a strange irony considering the social status of the Jesus of history and the literary uses of the parable. All of the features common to the parable as it is told by Mark and the Gospel of Thomas make it a perfectly realistic story. It is only Mark's editing of the story that takes it beyond the realistic idiom characteristic of Jesus' other parables. The book concludes with a dossier of 58 papyrus documents relating to various aspects of viticulture and agrarian conflict. It was awarded the 2007 Francis W. Beare Book Award by the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies.
 

Contenido

Introduction
1
Ideology and the Momentum of Interpretation
7
Ideology and the Structure of the Parable
28
Material Relations in the Markan Parable
38
The Tenants as an Early Christian Allegory
50
Israel the Temple and the Fate of Jesus
71
50
84
75
90
Conclusion
172
Matthews Sources and Editorial Interests
197
The Parable of the Tenants in Mark and Thomas
219
Reading Ancient Viticulture
278
Tenancy and Large Estates in Jewish Palestine
284
Conclusion
348
28
478
Appendix
584

Summary and Critique
103
A Élite Landowner and Desperate Tenants
129
Isaiah 517 Egyptian Viticulture and Mark 121 9
149
Mark 121 9 and Isaiah 517
166

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John S. Kloppenborg, Born 1951; M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of St. Michael's College; Professor and Associate Chair of the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto.

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