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Die Gleichnisse und Parabeln, die Jesus im Thomasevangelium erzählt, sind ein wesentlicher Bestandteil dieser apokryph gewordenen Schrift. Im Anschluss an eine Reflexion der spezifischen Hermeneutik des Thomasevangeliums werden die Gleichnisse und Parabeln in ihrem literarischen Kontext interpretiert. Darauf aufbauend wird dargestellt, dass diese Miniaturerzählungen einen bedeutenden inhaltlichen Beitrag zur Theologie dieser Schrift leisten.

This book examines the use of the term ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ (¿today¿) in Luke-Acts (22 occurrences), the Pauline letters (Romans 11:8; 2 Corinthians 3:14, 15) and the Epistle to the Hebrews (1:5; 3:7, 13, 15; 4:7 [twice]); 5:5; 13:8). It gives special attention to the possible influence of the Deuteronomic "today" in the New Testament. Two main hypotheses are at the heart of this study. First, the word "today," in Deuteronomy as well as the three New Testament corpora under consideration, becomes a theological theme of its own. Second, in the minds of the three New Testament authors who give attention to this motif, there seems to be an awareness of certain theological associations that are bound up with the Deuteronomic "today." By the end of this investigation, it becomes apparent that Luke¿s today, Paul¿s today and the today of the Epistle to the Hebrews, while each possessing unique characteristics, all contribute to emphasize the same key theological concepts, such as the fulfillment of Scripture, an inaugurated and progressively realized eschatology, the coming of salvation, the heralding of the good news and the proclaiming of God¿s Word.

L'exegese historique soulignait l'abime theologique entre le kerygme paulinien et l'histoire du salut racontee par Luc. L'avenement des methodes synchroniques et la mise en question par la New Perspective du paulinisme de la recherche permirent de rendre justice au genie lucanien pour lui-meme. Le dossier des rapports theologiques entre les deux corpus merite toutefois d'etre rouvert: Luc n'integre-t-il Paul qu'au titre de figure identitaire dans les Actes, ou son recit global est-il travaille en profondeur par la theologie de l'apotre? Apres avoir resume l'histoire de la question et pose les bases hermeneutique de sa demarche, C. Singer s'en tient a un examen de l'evangile, degage, donc, du probleme de la fiabilite historique des Actes. A partir d'un point de contact litteraire entre Luc et Paul est repere le deploiement narratif du theme de la justice. Luc opere un deplacement par rapport au creuset du judaisme hellenistique auquel il forge son recit. La justice est devoilee comme pretention humaine et cede la place a la justification. L'ethique acquiert un statut propedeutique a la conversion. Le recit de Luc apparait ainsi traverse par une coherence theologique dynamique, analogue a celle des epitres pauliniennes.

The present monograph is the slightly modified publication of a doctoral thesis in theology presented in November 2009 at the University of Lausanne (CH). It results from a pressing question in New Testament: an appraisal of the relationship of the work of Luke, more precisely of his Acts of the Apostles, to the Jewish faith. This problem, to which an unwavering consensus attached until the nineteen-sixties, has become a storm centre of New Testament research over the last three decades. The originality of this study is the reassessment of the Jewish question from the point of view of the acknowledged purpose of Lucan historiography as focused on identity, providing it with a differentiated approach.