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The Parables of Jesus
Bernard Brandon Scott & Joanna Dewey
LECTURE
Bernard Brandon Scott
What is a Parable?
Lost for ages in the backwaters of allegory and simplistic preaching, the parables of Jesus have emerged in modern scholarship as the creation of a great artist. Brandon Scott will explore what parables are and how they differ from allegories. The parable of the Mustard Seed will serve as the primary focus of the presentation. Several Rabbinic parables as well as Jesus’ parable about Treasure will also come into play.
Friday, 7:30-9 P.M.
WORKSHOPS
Joanna Dewey
Jesus, Women, and the Parables
Four parables include women characters: the parables of the Leaven, the Lost Coin, the Stubborn Widow, and the Ten Maidens. Joanna Dewey will explore the women in the parables and the women around Jesus in the context of first century roles of women and what the parables suggest about God and God’s kingdom.
Saturday, 9:30 A.M.-Noon
Joanna Dewey & Brandon Scott
Parables and the Kingdom
Jesus told parables as a way of explaining and helping his audience experience the kingdom of God. So parables are a door to the kingdom. But what explains what? Does the kingdom explain the parables or do the parables explain the kingdom? The parables of the Prodigal Son (or the parable of a dysfunctional family), the Samaritan and Leased Vineyard will provide a primary focus for this presentation.
Saturday, 1:30-4 P.M.
FACULTY
Joanna Dewey ( Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union) is the Harvey H. Guthrie, Jr. Professor Emerita of Biblical Studies at Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of several books, including Mark as Story (with David Rhoads, 1999).
Bernard Brandon Scott (Ph.D., Vanderbilt University) is the Darbeth Distinguished Professor of New Testament at the Phillips Theological Seminary, Tulsa, OK. He is the author of several books, including Hear Then the Parable (1989) and Re-Imagine the World (2002), and editor of Funk on Parables (2007).
ALL EVENTS AT
Unitarian Universalist Church of Transylvania County
1 Varsity Street (at Broad Street)
Brevard, North Carolina 28712
All Sessions
$ U.S.
Pre-registration (by March 21)
$50
Registration (after March 21)
$60
Additional Family Member
$40
Single Sessions
Friday Evening Lecture
$15
Saturday Morning Workshop
$25
Saturday Afternoon Workshop
$25
Register by mail using the printable registration form.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT
Westar Institute
P.O. Box 7268
Santa Rosa, CA 95407
tollfree 877-523-3545, 707- 523-1350 fax
events@westarinstitute.orgor
Dr. Earle Rabb
828-885-2874
therabbs@citcom.net