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Puzzling the Parables of Jesus T.J. Hapshie family and social environmentModern 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 its rich complexity. Introductory chapters address the history of research and distinguish historical from literary and reader oriented approaches, then set out a postmodern hermeneutic that analyzes narrative