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Luise Schottroff : parables and social structures

By / 19 March 2007

Luise Schottroff : parables and social structuresLuise Schottroff is a remarkable New Testament scholar whom whose work we (non-German speakers) are able to appreciate only through English translation. They’ll be a review of her latest book, The Parables of Jesus, here soon. It follows in the wake of a number of other very signifcant publications, and is in a similar vein to the work of Ched Myers (providing socio-political interpretation, but from a feminist perspective).

If you are interested in reading some of her work, you could try getting hold of a copy of Lydia’s Impatient Sisters: A Feminist Social History of Early Christianity or Let the Oppressed Go Free: Feminist Perspectives on the New Testament (among others).

Too easily we buy into a myth of parable reading that allows us to read them as positive fables about the coming Kingdom of God. Schottroff unravels this…..laying bare the transformative politics that is at the heart of the Kingdom of God which Jesus proclaimed. A timely reminder of the way of the cross, and the social truth which the man on the cross proclaims.

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