RT Article
T1 The Parable of the Talents (Matt 25:14–30): Preparing Jesus’ Disciples to Lead the Worldwide Expansion of the Mission of Jesus
JF Novum Testamentum
VO 63
IS 2
SP 159
OP 176
A1 Porter, Phillip
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1752166116
AB There is an unresolved tension between the parable of the Talent’s Matthean literary arrangement and readings proposed by modern scholars using socio-historical research to assess the parable’s reception by a first century audience. Drawing on metaphor theory and incorporating insights from the main interpretive trajectories found in modern scholarship on this parable, the author here proposes a new literary-critical reading that resolves this tension. He argues the parable’s rhetorical function within the Matthean narrative is to prepare the Matthean disciples to lead the universal expansion of the mission of the Matthean Jesus in the post-Easter period.
K1 Rhetoric
K1 Metaphor
K1 universal mission
K1 talents
K1 Parable
DO 10.1163/15685365-12341700