Jesus' encounter with Israel: the nation, its leaders and their people
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Abstract
I suggested in chapter 1 that narrative criticism has a role to play in the rehabilitation of the Synoptic parables both as stories worth examination in their own right (not merely as the necessary starting points for reconstructing Jesus' parables) and as part of the evangelists' wider communicative actions. Part two of this study aims to contribute to this rehabilitation. Chapters 3 and 4 consider the relationship of the parables to the wider narrative, asking both what impact they make upon the developing storyline and, especially, how this wider story influences the reader's reception of the trilogy. Chapter 5 attends to the parables themselves, exploring the ways in which this trilogy addresses its readers. In this third chapter, we turn our attention to the narrative's portrait of Israel for the following reasons. First, the trilogy is set in the midst of Jesus' escalating conflict with the Jewish establishment. Second, Jesus addresses each of these parables to the Jewish leaders. Third, The Tenants rehearses the story of Jesus' reception in Israel. Fourth, following both The Two Sons and The Tenants, the Jewish people are distinguished from their leaders. Fifth, from the earliest scenes, Jesus' encounter with Israel is seldom far from centre stage in the dramatic story that Matthew tells. Indeed, at one level, Matthew's narrative is the story of Jesus' encounter with Israel. Sixth, this story is already well advanced before the reader meets this trilogy of parables.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".