A Historic-Critical and Literary-Cultural Approach to the Parables of the Kingdom: A Language Arts Textbook on the New Testament Parables

This is the accompanying text book for the Parables of the Kingdom curricular unit for Language Arts. The New Testament Parables are approached from a historic-critical and literary-cultural lens which analyzes history, geography, economic distribution and feudal systems; as well as literary techniques and narrative story mapping. It also includes a chapter on Roman Catholic social justice extensions of the parable teachings. Student work studies include: vocabulary; comprehension, summary and discussion questions; and group activities.