Frank Kermode

Jesus’ Parables and the War of Myths

Biblical Studies & Commentaries

“The achievement of Amos Wilder seems to me of the first order, and it is only proper that these essays should be published. Wilder was a pioneer in the reintroduction of imagination into scriptural interpretation. The rules that governed it had come to seem natural laws, and there are still those who treat them as such. But Wilder gathered together the best that was being thought and the best fruits of the modern hermeneutic imagination from wherever he found them, and has done his part to ensure that biblical scholarship will never again, among persons of good will, succumb to a sleep of reason and exclude the creative faculties that even scholars possess.”