Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- PART I WOMEN IN FIRST CENTURY CULTURES
- PART II JESUS AND WOMEN
- 4 Teachings on family and single life
- 5 Women in the parables and judgment sayings
- 6 Stories of help and healing
- 7 Women in the ministry of Jesus
- PART III PAUL AND WOMEN
- PART IV WOMEN AND THE EVANGELISTS
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
5 - Women in the parables and judgment sayings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 January 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface
- PART I WOMEN IN FIRST CENTURY CULTURES
- PART II JESUS AND WOMEN
- 4 Teachings on family and single life
- 5 Women in the parables and judgment sayings
- 6 Stories of help and healing
- 7 Women in the ministry of Jesus
- PART III PAUL AND WOMEN
- PART IV WOMEN AND THE EVANGELISTS
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
Summary
Parables
Perhaps no form of Jesus' teaching has received closer scrutiny or more diverse treatment than His parables. The lack of uniformity, either in the means or in the results of parable interpretation, has not deterred scholars from trying to make sense of these likable vignettes which make up about one-third of Jesus' reported teaching. If, as A. M. Hunter suggests, the parables were “Jesus' justification of his mission to the last, the least, and the lost,” then it is not at all surprising that women figure prominently in some of them.
The obstinate widow and the obdurate judge – Lk. 18.1 – 8
And he told them a parable, to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor regarded man; and there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Vindicate me against my adversary.’ For a while he refused; but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow bothers me, I will vindicate her, or she will wear me out by her continual coming.’” And the Lord said, “Hear what the unrighteous judge says. And will not God vindicate his elect, who cry to him day and night? Will he delay long over them? I tell you, he will vindicate them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
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- Women and the Genesis of Christianity , pp. 52 - 64Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1990
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