Publications by the team of our project

2023

Books

  • Zimmermann, Ruben: Parabeln der Bibel. Die Sinnwelten der Gleichnisse Jesu entdecken, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlag 2023, 467 S.

Articles

  • Zimmermann, Ruben: Social Identity Theory and the Parable of Growths, in: E. Ottenheim/A. Merz (Hg.), The Power of Parables: Narrating Religion in Late Antiquity, Leiden–Boston: Brill. 2023 (forthcoming)
  • Strong, Justin David. “AIs Pondering Jesus’s ‘Parables’: What It Tells Us about the Process of Reception in the Past, the Present, and the Future.” In The Parables and Their Reception. Edited by Marianne Bjelland Kartzow, Anders Martinsen, and Ellen Aasland Reinertsen. Studies of the Bible and Its Reception. Berlin: De Gruyter, accepted for publication.
  • Strong, Justin David. “From Ahiqar and Aesop to the Bible and the Rabbis.” In The Fable between East and West. Edited by Caterina Mordeglia. Florence, IT: Sismel Edizioni del Galluzzo, accepted for publication.
  • Strong, Justin David. “Aesop.” The Literary Encyclopedia. Forthcoming 2023.
  • Strong, Justin David. “‘And Jesus Told Them a Fable:’ On Methods and Motivations for Embedding Fables in the Gospels.” In “Et in cothurnis prodit Aesopus nouis:” On the Interaction between Ancient Fable and Literary Genres. Edited by Ursula Gaertner and Lukas Spielhofer. Trends in Classics Supplementary Volumes. Berlin: De Gruyter, forthcoming 2023.
  • Strong, Justin David. “The Rabbinic Mashal and the Ancient Fable: Prospects for a Changing Perspective.” In The Power of Parables: Essays on the Comparative Study of Jewish and Christian Parables. Edited by Annette Merz, Eric Ottenheim, and Marcel Poorthuis. Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2023.

 

2022

Edited Volume

  • Oegema, Albertina, Jonathan Pater, and Martijn Stoutjesdijk, eds. Overcoming Dichotomies: Parables, Fables, and Similes in the Graeco-Roman World. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 483. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022.

Scholarly Articles

  • Zimmermann, Ruben: The Fables According to Babrius and the New Testament Parables, in: J.J. Pater u. a. (Hg.), Overcoming Dichotomies: Parables, Fables, and Similes in the Graeco-Roman World, WUNT 483, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022, 141-166.
  • Zimmermann, Ruben: Manyfold yields in Polyvalent Interpretations. The Parable of the Mustard Seed in Synoptic Tradition, in: Thomas E. Goud (Hg.), Encountering the Parables in Contexts Old and New, The Library of New Testament Studies series 671, London/New York: Bloomsbury/T&T Clark, 2022, 5-30.
  • Strong, Justin David. “The Markan ‘Parables’ and Ancient Rhetorical Theories of Fable and Comparison.” Pages 37–61 in Genres of Mark—Reading Mark’s Gospel from Micro and Macro Perspectives. Edited by Jacob P. B. Mortensen. Studia Aarhusiana Neotestamentica 9. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022.
  • Strong, Justin David. “How to Interpret Parables in Light of the Fable: Lessons from the Promythium and Epimythium.” Pages 327–52 in Overcoming Dichotomies: Parables, Fables, and Similes in the Graeco-Roman World. Edited by Jonathan Pater, Martijn Stoutjesdijk, and Albertina Oegema. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament I. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022. 
  • Oegema, Albertina, and Annette Merz. “Honoring Human Agency and Autonomy: Children as Agents in New Testament and Early Rabbinic Parables.” In The Power of Parables. Edited by Annette Merz, Eric Ottenheijm, and Marcel Poorthuis. Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series. Leiden: Brill. In print.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “What Are These Sons Doing? Filial Agency in New Testament and Early Rabbinic Writings.” Zeitschrift für die neutestamentliche Wissenschaft 113 (2022): 261–283.
  • Oegema, Albertina, and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. “Beyond the Parable-Fable Dichotomy: An Introduction to the Volume.” Pages 1–11 in Overcoming Dichotomies: Parables, Fables, and Similes in the Graeco-Roman World. Edited by Albertina Oegema, Jonathan Pater, and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 483. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022.

Popular Articles

  • Oegema, Albertina. “Welke vader geeft zijn zoon een slang te eten? Over de parabel van de voedsel vragende zoon (Matteüs 7:9–11//Lukas 11:11–13).” In Parabels: Een universeel genre. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Heeswijk: Uitgeverij Abdij van Berne. In print.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “Ruim het veld voor ons! Over de parabel van de kinderen op het veld (Ev. Thom. 21).” In Parabels: Een universeel genre. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Heeswijk: Uitgeverij Abdij van Berne. In print.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “Ouderdom in de Hebreeuwse Bijbel.” PThUnie 16, no. 3 (2022): 11–13.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “Boze vaders in vroegrabbijnse parabels.” Alef Beet 31, no. 1 (2022): 3–13.

Reviews

  • Oegema, Albertina. Review of Kristine Henriksen Garroway and John W. Martens, eds., Children and Methods: Listening to and Learning from Children in the Biblical World. NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 76 (2022): 83–84.

 

2021

Dissertation

  • Oegema, Albertina. “Negotiating Paternal Authority and Filial Agency: Fathers and Sons in Early Rabbinic Parables.” PhD diss., Utrecht University, 2021.

Scholarly Articles

  • Zimmermann, Ruben: Form und Funktion der Frageparabeln des erinnerten Jesus, in: J. Schröter/K. Schwarz/S. Al-Suadi (Hg.), Gleichnisse und Parabeln in der frühchristlichen Literatur: Methodische Konzepte, religionshistorische Kontexte, theologische Deutungen, WUNT 456, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021, 99-117.
  • Zimmermann, Ruben: The Body-Fables in Babrius, Fab. 134 and 1 Cor 12. Hierarchic or Democratic Leadership in Crisis-Management?, HTS Theological Studies 77 (2021) 1-8.
  • Oegema, Albertina, and Annette Merz. “Kinder als handelnde Subjekte in neutestamentlichen und rabbinischen Gleichnissen.” Zeitschrift für Neues Testament 48 (2021): 27–43.

Books

  • Strong, Justin David. The Fables of Jesus in the Gospel of Luke: A New Foundation for the Study of Parables. Studies in Cultural Contexts of the Bible 5. Paderborn: Brill, 2021. xxii + 629 pages.
  • Winner of the 2022 Manfred Lautenschläger Award. Scholarly reviews: Margaret Froelich (Claremont School of Theology), Religious Studies Review 4 (2022): 571–72 (link); Peter J. Tomson (University of Leuven, Belgium), Review of Biblical Literature (2022) (link).

 

2020

Popular Articles

  • Oegema, Albertina. “Ruimte om te ruziën: De parabel van de kinderen op de markt (Lucas 7:31–35//Matteüs 11:16–19).” Pages 133–136 in Parabels: Onderricht van Jezus en de rabbijnen. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Heeswijk: Uitgeverij Abdij van Berne, 2020.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “Vaders wil is wet? De parabel van de twee zonen (Matteüs 21:28–32).” Pages 97–100 in Parabels: Onderricht van Jezus en de rabbijnen. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Heeswijk: Uitgeverij Abdij van Berne, 2020.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “Parabels en de scheiding der wegen: De parabel van de pachters van de wijngaard (Marcus 12:1–11//Matteüs 21:33–44//Lucas 20:9–18//Evangelie van Thomas 65–66).” Pages 127–131 in Parabels: Onderricht van Jezus en de rabbijnen. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Heeswijk: Uitgeverij Abdij van Berne, 2020.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “Een blik op het lijden van de zoon: De parabel van de verloren zoon en zijn boze broer (Lukas 15:11–32).” Pages 169–172 in Parabels: Onderricht van Jezus en de rabbijnen. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. Heeswijk: Uitgeverij Abdij van Berne, 2020.

Reviews

  • Oegema, Albertina, and Lieve Teugels. Review of Joshua Schwartz and Peter J. Tomson, eds., Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: The Interbellum 70‒132 CE. Journal for the Study of Judaism 51 (2020): 433–441.

Blogs

 

2019

Scholarly Articles

  • Oegema, Albertina, Jonathan Pater, and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. “It Is like a Woman Who …? Women in Early Rabbinic and Early Christian Parables.” Pages 236–264 in Parables in Changing Contexts: Essays on the Study of Parables in Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and Buddhism. Edited by Eric Ottenheijm and Marcel Poorthuis. Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series 35. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “‘De zoon smeekte bij zijn vader’: De agency van gestrafte kinderen in vroegrabbijnse parabels.” Ex tempore 38 (2019): 82–96.

Popular Articles

  • Oegema, Albertina. “Broodje gezond op zijn rabbijns: Goede voeding in een laatantieke joodse parabel.” Pages 203–210 in Wie is er bang voor religie? Waarom kennis van religie belangrijk is. Edited by Joas Wagemakers and Lucien van Liere. Almere: Uitgeverij Parthenon, 2019.

Blogs

 

2018

Articles

  • Memory and Jesus’ Parables. J.P. Meier’s Explosion and the Restoration of the ‘Bedrock’ of Jesus’ Speech, in: Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus (= JSHJ) 16, 2018, 156–172.

Reviews

  • Oegema, Albertina. Review of Hagith Sivan, Jewish Childhood in the Roman World. Journal for the Study of Judaism 49 (2018): 591–594.

Blogs

 

2017

Scholarly Articles

  • Oegema, Albertina, Jonathan Pater, and Martijn Stoutjesdijk. “Alleen bruiden, slavinnen en weduwen? De rol van vrouwen in vroegrabbijnse en vroegchristelijke gelijkenissen.” NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 71 (2017): 130–150.
  • Oegema, Albertina. “The Reception of Isa 40:15 in Liber antiquitatum biblicarum, 2 Baruch, and 4 Ezra.” Pages 94–111 in Authoritative Texts and Reception History: Aspects and Approaches. Edited by Dan Batovici and Kristin De Troyer. Biblical Interpretation Series 151. Leiden: Brill, 2017.

Blogs

 

2016

Articles

  • Zimmermann, Ruben: Parables in Matthew: Tradition, Interpretation and Function in the Gospel, in: G. van Belle/J. Verheyden (Hg.), An Early Reader of Mark and Q. New and Old on the Composition, Redaction, and Theology of the Gospel of Matthew, Biblical Tools and Studies (= BToSt) 21, Leuven et al.: Peters, 2016, 159–185.

Reviews

  • Oegema, Albertina. Review of Herbert W. Basser and Marsha B. Cohen, The Gospel of Matthew and Judaic Traditions: A Relevance-Based Commentary. NTT Journal for Theology and the Study of Religion 70 (2016): 79–80.

Blogs

 

 

2015

Books

  • Zimmermann, Ruben: Puzzling the Parables of Jesus. Methods and Interpretation, Minneapolis – Augsburg: Fortress 2015, 496 S.

  • Spanische Übersetzung,

    Las enigmáticas parábolas de Jesús: Metodos e Interpretación, Barcelona: CLIE, 2022.

Edited Volumes

  • Zimmermann, Ruben: Kompendium der Gleichnisse Jesu, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlag 2007, ²2015; 1101 pages (in cooperation with mit D. Dormeyer/G. Kern/A. Merz/Chr. Münch/E. E. Popkes)

Articles

  • Zimmermann, Ruben: The Woman in Labor (John 16:21) and the Parables in the Fourth Gospel, in: K.B. Larsen (Hg.), The Gospel of John as Genre Mosaic, Studia Aarhusiana Neotestamentica 3, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2015, 303–339.
  • Zimmermann, Ruben: Die Gleichnisse Jesu. Eine Leseanleitung zum Kompendium, in: R. Zimmermann u.a. (Hg.), Kompendium der Gleichnisse Jesu, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlag ²2015, 3–46.
  • Zimmermann, Ruben: Folgenreiche Bitte! (Arbeiter für die Ernte) – Q 10,2 (Mt 9,37f. / Lk 10,2 / EvThom 73, in: R. Zimmermann u.a. (Hg.), Kompendium der Gleichnisse Jesu, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlag ²2015, 111–118.
  • Zimmermann, Ruben: Neunundneunzig sind nicht genug! (Vom verlorenen Schaf) – Q 15,4–5a.7 (Mt 18,12–14 / Lk 15,1–7 / EvThom 107), in: R. Zimmermann u.a. (Hg.), Kompendium der Gleichnisse Jesu, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlag ²2015, 205–219. (together with D. Dormeyer/A. Merz/Chr. Münch)
  • Zimmermann, Ruben: Berührende Liebe (Der barmherzige Samariter) – Lk 10,30–35, in: R. Zimmermann u.a. (Hg.), Kompendium der Gleichnisse Jesu, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlag ²2015, 538–555.
  • Zimmermann, Ruben: Parabeln im Johannesevangelium. Einleitung, in: R. Zimmermann u.a. (Hg.), Kompendium der Gleichnisse Jesu, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlag ²2015, 697–709.
  • Zimmermann, Ruben: Geteilte Arbeit – Doppelte Freude! (Von der nahen Ernte) – Joh 4,35–38, in: R. Zimmermann u.a. (Hg.), Kompendium der Gleichnisse Jesu, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlag ²2015, 737–744.
  • Zimmermann, Ruben: Das Leben aus dem Tod (Vom sterbenden Weizenkorn) – Joh 12,24, in: R. Zimmermann u.a. (Hg.), Kompendium der Gleichnisse Jesu, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlag ²2015, 804–816.
  • Zimmermann, Ruben: Parabeln unter den Agrapha. Einleitung, in: R. Zimmermann u.a. (Hg.), Kompendium der Gleichnisse Jesu, Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlag ²2015, 933–939.

Blogs