In this startling work, Luise Schottroff proposes an alternative reading of Jesus' parables. Her work decries the traditional allegorizing of Jesus' stories, with their easy identification of God as one of the characters in the stories. Instead she uses a social-historical method to place the parables in their original context in order to uncover their true meaning for today's readers. An important resource for those who preach and teach from the parables.
