Honour and debt release in the parable of the Unmerciful Servant (Mt 18:23–33): A social-scientific and realistic reading

This article presents a social-scientific and realistic reading of the parable of the Unmerciful Servant. The parables of Jesus are realistic stories about everyday events in 1st-century Palestine that evoke specific social realia and practices known to its first hearers. As recent studies on the pa...

Full description

Saved in:  
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eck, Ernest van (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Check availability: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 2015
In: HTS teologiese studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 71, Issue: 1
Further subjects:B honor and shame
B Social-Scientififc Criticism
B Roman Egypt Documented Papyri
B Debt
B Matthew 18:22-33
B Reciprocity
B Parble of the Unmerciful Servant
Online Access: Volltext (kostenfrei)
Volltext (kostenfrei)

MARC

LEADER 00000naa a22000002c 4500
001 194617128X
003 DE-627
005 20251216055819.0
007 cr uuu---uuuuu
008 251216s2015 xx |||||o 00| ||eng c
024 7 |a 10.4102/hts.v71i1.2838  |2 doi 
035 |a (DE-627)194617128X 
035 |a (DE-599)KXP194617128X 
040 |a DE-627  |b ger  |c DE-627  |e rda 
041 |a eng 
084 |a 1  |2 ssgn 
100 1 |a Eck, Ernest van  |e VerfasserIn  |4 aut 
245 1 0 |a Honour and debt release in the parable of the Unmerciful Servant (Mt 18:23–33): A social-scientific and realistic reading 
264 1 |c 2015 
336 |a Text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a Computermedien  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a Online-Ressource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
520 |a This article presents a social-scientific and realistic reading of the parable of the Unmerciful Servant. The parables of Jesus are realistic stories about everyday events in 1st-century Palestine that evoke specific social realia and practices known to its first hearers. As recent studies on the parables have shown, papyri from early Roman Egypt provide detailed information on the implied social realities and practices assumed in the parables. In reading the parable through the lens of patronage and clientism and against the background of the relationship between royal ideology and debt release attested in documented papyri, it is argued that the parable suggests that in the basileia of God debt should be released in terms of general reciprocity, emulating the way in which patrons release debt for the sake of honour. 
650 4 |a Social-Scientififc Criticism 
650 4 |a Reciprocity 
650 4 |a honor and shame 
650 4 |a Debt 
650 4 |a Roman Egypt Documented Papyri 
650 4 |a Matthew 18:22-33 
650 4 |a Parble of the Unmerciful Servant 
773 0 8 |i Enthalten in  |t HTS teologiese studies  |d Tygervalley : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], 2001  |g 71(2015), 1, Artikel-ID a2838  |h Online-Ressource  |w (DE-627)387423893  |w (DE-600)2144496-1  |w (DE-576)31297406X  |x 2072-8050  |7 nnas 
773 1 8 |g volume:71  |g year:2015  |g number:1  |g elocationid:a2838 
856 |u https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/download/2838/5649  |x unpaywall  |z Vermutlich kostenfreier Zugang  |h publisher [oa journal (via doaj)] 
856 4 0 |u https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v71i1.2838  |x Resolving-System  |z kostenfrei  |3 Volltext  |7 0 
856 4 0 |u https://hts.org.za/index.php/hts/article/view/2838  |x Verlag  |z kostenfrei  |3 Volltext  |7 0 
912 |a NOMM 
935 |a mteo 
951 |a AR 
ELC |a 1 
LOK |0 000 xxxxxcx a22 zn 4500 
LOK |0 001 482885911X 
LOK |0 003 DE-627 
LOK |0 004 194617128X 
LOK |0 005 20251216055819 
LOK |0 008 251216||||||||||||||||ger||||||| 
LOK |0 035   |a (DE-Tue135)IxTheo#2025-12-09#10342A5CAAF7B2CFBDF55B8578AEBC832044E85B 
LOK |0 040   |a DE-Tue135  |c DE-627  |d DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 092   |o n 
LOK |0 852   |a DE-Tue135 
LOK |0 852 1  |9 00 
LOK |0 935   |a ixrk  |a ixzs  |a zota 
LOK |0 939   |a 16-12-25  |b l01 
OAS |a 1 
ORI |a TA-MARC-ixtheoa001.raw