Ruben Zimmermann: 2 books
Puzzling the Parables of Jesus
Methods and Interpretation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Modern scholarship on the parables has long been preoccupied with asking what Jesus himself said and what he intended to accomplish with his parables. Ruben Zimmermann moves beyond that agenda to explore the dynamics of parabolic speech in all their rich complexity. Introductory chapters address the...
The Logic of Love
Discovering Paul’s “Implicit Ethics” through 1 Corinthians
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
The goal of the present study unfolds in the following four ways. First, in analyzing Pauline writings (primarily Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians) it can be demonstrated that the Apostle can be described as an ethicist. The hypothesis operative here is that in the sources, despite their occasional...