Jesus, the Anthropologist

Patterns of Emplotment and Modes of Action in the Parables

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3374362
AutoresBenoît Vermander (0000-0002-6493-0675, Fudan University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen13
Número6
Páginas480
Fecha de publicación2022-05-25
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaReligions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444
EditorialMDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT)
DOI10.3390/rel13060480
OpenAlexW4281492486
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas17

This article uses a typology of action framework to analyze a selection of the gospels' parables. It does so by connecting these parables to A. G. Haudricourt and C. Ferret's research on the "anthropology of action". After summarizing Haudricourt's and Ferret's results, I relate modes of action to types of emplotment. I select four parables as the basis of my analysis, using J. P. Meier's findings as a guide for selection. I discern in these four parables four modes of emplotment, which enables me to insert them into larger narrative networks found within the gospels. I locate the corpus of narratives determined this way in the context of Jesus' time so as to better appreciate how the four modes of emplotment combine into a typology of action shaped by a specific social and cultural context. Within this typology of action, I put a spotlight on the way our corpus' modes of emplotment make use of "discontinuous actions" (coined by Ferret). "Discontinuous actions" decisively initiate or correct a specified course of events. The stress on this dimension of action applies to the relationships occurring between humans and the natural world, within the social world, and between humans and the supranatural world, thus connecting one order of reality with another

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