Update on the book: Estimated publication date, etc!

John Everett Millais, "The Hidden Treasure"

As I noted in a blog post last week, I turned in the book manuscript and am now working on obtaining copyright/permissions for the images and texts that I use in the book that are beyond "fair use" or not in the public domain. I am waiting to hear back from a number of institutions, but I already have more than half of the images I want/need.

In the meantime, I have received additional information about the book. The title is till tentative, so I won't say anything about that, but here are some other estimates about the book's publication:

The volume is scheduled to appear in February 2017. It will be approximately 304 pages, will be a paperback, and the estimated price is $27.99 (cheap!).

Here is the Table of Contents as it now appears in the manuscript so that you can see how wide-ranging the interpretations are:

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Afterlives of Jesus’ Parables in Antiquity (to 500 CE)

Irenaeus

The Gospel of Philip

Clement of Alexandria

Tertullian

Origen

John Chrysostom

Augustine

Macrina the Younger

Ephrem the Syrian

The Good Shepherd in Early Christian Art

Oil lamp (3^rd Century)

Roman catacombs

Dura Europos house church

Illuminations from the Rossano Gospels 

Byzantine mosaics; S. Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, Italy.

Romanos the Melodist

Chapter 2: The Afterlives of Jesus’ Parables in the Middle Ages (ca. 500–1500 CE)

Gregory the Great

Sahih al-Bukhari

Wazo of Liège

The Golden Gospels of Echternach

Theophylact

Hildegard of Bingen

Chartres Cathedral

Bonaventure

Thomas Aquinas

John Gower

Antonia Pulci

Albrecht Dürer

Chapter 3: The Afterlives of Jesus’ Parables in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Martin Luther

Anna Jansz of Rotterdam

John Calvin

John Maldonatus

William Shakespeare

Domenico Fetti

George Herbert

Roger Williams

Rembrandt

John Bunyan

Chapter 4: The Afterlives of Jesus’ Parables in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

William Blake

Søren Kierkegaard

Frederick Douglass

Fanny Crosby

Leo Tolstoy

John Everett Millais

Emily Dickinson

Charles Spurgeon

Adolf Jülicher

Chapter 5: The Afterlives of Jesus’ Parables in Antiquity in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Thomas Hart Benton

Parables and the Blues (Robert Wilkins)

Flannery O’Connor

Martin Luther King, Jr

Godspell

Latin American Receptions

Peasants from Solentiname / José Arana

Elsa Tamez

David Flusser

Octavia Butler

Thich Nhat Hanh

Conclusion

Appendix: Descriptions of the Parables cited in the Interpretations

Bibliography