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...

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Main Author: Eck, Ernest van (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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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
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