First Post
Hi, This is Mike's daughter, Anne. Both my dad and I will be posting on this blog.
My dad and I were at the SBL Conference last month. It was our first time, and wow were we worn out! I really enjoyed the Formation Luke-Acts Section. In closing, Dr. Thomas Brodie told us that scholars should be looking for a literary backbone that is expressed throughout the New Testament. He said it would take years to find, but that it was there. He said it would be verifiable, and that (I think he said) it would be found in the Hebrew Scriptures. I probably took him by surprise when I told him that my dad had found the literary backbone that he was looking for. I talked to him after the session and he said he'd look at it in print, so I'll be contacting him once The 150 Parables (revised edition) is out.
Another session I enjoyed was Mapping and Memory: Tradition, Texts and Identity. I got a chance to talk with Dr. Kelber for a minute afterwards because I felt like he'd like to hear about the literary form, and he said that he had felt that Mark was written in a parablic way. So that was nice to hear. I think he'll take a look at my dad's work once it's out.
I also went to the blog session to get me motivated to do this blog!! That was the most fun session I attended since it was laid back and we had a break to get up and stretch! I enjoyed the panel and discussion very much.
For those of you who have visited The 150 Parables website in the past, you've probably noticed a big change. My dad used to call "The Literary form of the Parable," "The Literary form of the Parables of Jesus." While at the SBL, my dad and I talked with a prominant scholar who urged him to find earlier writings that used this literary form. (My dad had been wanting to do that, but he has been quite busy and hadn't focused on it. He had identified a later piece of literature that used that literary form, but nothing earlier.) At the hotel that night my dad and I found the literary form in the Old Testament! So now we know that the literary form had been around for quite some time before the New Testament writers ever came along...and that's why the name change from the "literary form of the parables of Jesus", to the "literary form of the parable."
As far as what the hold up is regarding the books:
1. We now have permission to use the NRSV to show the diagramed Stories, so we're changing out the Stories from the public domain translation to the NRSV.
2. In October 2005, my dad found one last element of the literary form. This last element shows how to verify that the Stories are diagramed correctly. So my dad is making corrections where necessary, so the diagramed Stories are accurate. This is the most important change in the book/s.
3. My dad will add a chapter to The 150 Parables with examples of the literary form used in the Old Testament.
I have told some of you that the book would be out by now. I apologize! It's taking longer than we thought. We'll keep you posted on this blog as to its progress. If you have purchased a book in the past, let me know and I can get you a revised copy once it's out.
My dad and I were at the SBL Conference last month. It was our first time, and wow were we worn out! I really enjoyed the Formation Luke-Acts Section. In closing, Dr. Thomas Brodie told us that scholars should be looking for a literary backbone that is expressed throughout the New Testament. He said it would take years to find, but that it was there. He said it would be verifiable, and that (I think he said) it would be found in the Hebrew Scriptures. I probably took him by surprise when I told him that my dad had found the literary backbone that he was looking for. I talked to him after the session and he said he'd look at it in print, so I'll be contacting him once The 150 Parables (revised edition) is out.
Another session I enjoyed was Mapping and Memory: Tradition, Texts and Identity. I got a chance to talk with Dr. Kelber for a minute afterwards because I felt like he'd like to hear about the literary form, and he said that he had felt that Mark was written in a parablic way. So that was nice to hear. I think he'll take a look at my dad's work once it's out.
I also went to the blog session to get me motivated to do this blog!! That was the most fun session I attended since it was laid back and we had a break to get up and stretch! I enjoyed the panel and discussion very much.
For those of you who have visited The 150 Parables website in the past, you've probably noticed a big change. My dad used to call "The Literary form of the Parable," "The Literary form of the Parables of Jesus." While at the SBL, my dad and I talked with a prominant scholar who urged him to find earlier writings that used this literary form. (My dad had been wanting to do that, but he has been quite busy and hadn't focused on it. He had identified a later piece of literature that used that literary form, but nothing earlier.) At the hotel that night my dad and I found the literary form in the Old Testament! So now we know that the literary form had been around for quite some time before the New Testament writers ever came along...and that's why the name change from the "literary form of the parables of Jesus", to the "literary form of the parable."
As far as what the hold up is regarding the books:
1. We now have permission to use the NRSV to show the diagramed Stories, so we're changing out the Stories from the public domain translation to the NRSV.
2. In October 2005, my dad found one last element of the literary form. This last element shows how to verify that the Stories are diagramed correctly. So my dad is making corrections where necessary, so the diagramed Stories are accurate. This is the most important change in the book/s.
3. My dad will add a chapter to The 150 Parables with examples of the literary form used in the Old Testament.
I have told some of you that the book would be out by now. I apologize! It's taking longer than we thought. We'll keep you posted on this blog as to its progress. If you have purchased a book in the past, let me know and I can get you a revised copy once it's out.
posted by Anne and Mike at 6:08 PM
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