Interpreting Luke’s Parable of the Shrewd Manager via a First-Century Lens

Bruno Dyck

Chapter 5 in Management and the Gospel, 2013, pp 39-44 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The parable of the shrewd manager and the parable of the ten pounds examined in the next chapter are of particular interest for this study because each has a manager at the center of the action, and also because each contains aspects of the three dimensions of management: (1) managing relationships within an oikos 1; (2) managing money; and (3) managing relationships between oikoi. In sum, these two parables seem to provide a particularly relevant opportunity to see whether a first-century lens provides new interpretive insights not evident via conventional twenty-first-century interpretations.

Keywords: Financial Wealth; Literal Interpretation; Client Relationship; Religious Manager; Biblical Passage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137315861_5

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