A Word Fitly Spoken: Context, Transmission, and Adoption of the Parables of Jesus Book

	Introduction
1	Contextuality (Matthew 7:29)	1
2	The Hermeneutical Location of Paradise	25
3	Halakhic Midrash as Parable (Deuteronomy 23:19)	53
4	The Impact of Cumulative Parables: Strings of Pearls (Matthew 13:3-53)	85
5	Pancultural Adaptations: He Who Never Lifts His Gaze Will Never Know the Truth (Matthew 25:1-12)	119
6	Unexpected Literary Forms: The Fish Who Paid Taxes (Matthew 17:24-27 and 22:15-21)	149
7	Shifts in Transmission: Mites, Motes, and Mistakes (Matthew 7:1-5)	187
8	Parables with a Foreign Nimshal: A Skeleton in the King's Closet (Matthew 21:42-44)	219
9	Listener Response: Wedding Feasts and Wineskins (Matthew 9:14-17)	257
	Epilogue	283
	Appendix I: Proverbs 25:11: A Word Fitly Spoken	285
	Appendix II: Selections from Haim bar Bezalel's	293
	Appendix III: The Half-Sheqel Offering in the Second Temple Period	297
	Bibliography	309
	Name Index	363
	Subject Index	371
	Biblical and Apocryphal Citations	375
	Classical and Early Christian References	383
	Rabbinic References	385