Parable

What Is A Parable?

• parabole | The Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament

• Parable | Nelson’s New Illustrated Bible Dictionary

• Parable | Eerdmans Bible Dictionary

• Parable | Easton’s Bible Dictionary

• Parable | Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels

• Jesus Christ, parables of | Zondervan Dictionary of Bible Themes

• The Parables of Jesus, Kafka, Borges, and Others, With Structural Observations | Semeia 2: The Good Samaritan

• The Parabolic Teaching of Jesus | Semeia 65: Orality and Textuality in Early Christian Literature

General Principles for Interpreting the Parables

• The Interpretation of Parables | Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 33a: Matthew 1-13

• Guidelines For Interpreting Jesus’ Parables | Bibliotheca Sacra Volume 155

• Excursus: Modern Parable Research | Word Biblical Commentary, Volume 35a: Luke 1:1-9:20

• Interpreting the Parables | Biblical Hermeneutics: A Comprehensive Introduction to Interpreting Scripture (2nd Ed.)

• Methods and Controversies in Interpreting the Parables | Interpreting the Parables

• Conclusions to Part 1: Interpretation | Interpreting the Parables

Reviews of Books about Parables

• Like a Tree Planted: An Exploration of Psalms and Parables through Metaphor | Review of Biblical Literature: 1998

• A Word Fitly Spoken: Context, Transmission, and Adoption of the Parables of Jesus | Review of Biblical Literature: 2000

• Die Zeit der Gottesherrschaft: Zur Allegorie und zum Gleichnis von Markus 4, 1–9 | Review of Biblical Literature: 2000

• Die “anderen” Winzer: Eine exegetische Studie zur Vollmacht Jesu Christi nach Markus 11,27–12,34 | Review of Biblical Literature: 2000

• The Parables of Jesus: Recovering the Art Of Listening | Review of Biblical Literature: 2000

• Matthew’s Parables: Audience-Oriented Perspectives | Review of Biblical Literature: 2000

• What are They Saying about the Parables? | Review of Biblical Literature: 2001

• The Language of the Kingdom and Jesus: Parable, Aphorism, and Metaphor in the Sayings Material Common to the Synoptic Tradition and the Gospel of Thomas | Review of Biblical Literature: 2002

• Prodigality, Liberality and Meanness in the Parable of the Prodigal Son: A Greco-Roman Perspective on Luke 15:11–32 | Review of Biblical Literature: 2002

• The Parables of Jesus: A Commentary | Review of Biblical Literature: 2003

• A Dialogic Reading of the Steward Parable (Luke 16:1–9) | Review of Biblical Literature: 2003

• Matthew’s Trilogy of Parables: The Nation, the Nations and the Reader in Matthew 21:28–22:14 | Review of Biblical Literature: 2004

• The Lost Coin: Parables of Women, Work and Wisdom | Review of Biblical Literature: 2004

• Re-imagine the World: An Introduction to the Parables of Jesus | Review of Biblical Literature: 2004

• Jacob and the Prodigal: How Jesus Retold Israel’s Story | Review of Biblical Literature: 2004

• Parables for Our Time: Rereading New Testament Scholarship after the Holocaust | Review of Biblical Literature: 2005

• Many Things In Parables: Jesus and His Modern Critics | Review of Biblical Literature: 2005

• A Rabbi Looks at Jesus’ Parables | Review of Biblical Literature: 2006

Web Links

• Rabbinic Parables by R. C. Newman

Key Passages