Rediscovering the Parables

Joachim Jeremias'' The Parables of Jesus is a classic of twentieth-century New Testament scholarship. However to appreciate its original form to the full calls for a knowledge of Greek and patience to work through much technical and linguistic material. Aware of this before he died the author worked on a shorter and simplified version which was subsequently also translated into English.''This is an excellent idea because a book which became for many students a gateway into a new understanding of the parables is now available in its main substance to a much wider group of readers''(The Expository Times).Long unavailable it is now reissued for a new generation of readers who will perhaps find it even more useful than did their predecessors.Joachim Jeremias was Professor of New Testament in the University of Gottingen and died in 1979.