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parable
parable the term translates the Hebrew word "mashal" —a term denoting a metaphor, or an enigmatic saying or an analogy. In the Greco-Roman rhetorical tradition, however, "parables" were illustrative narrative examples. Jewish teachers of the 1st cent. AD made use of comparisons in narr... Read more
Dives
Dives [Lat.,=rich], traditional name of the unnamed rich man of the parable in the Gospel of St. Luke. ... Read more
prodigal son
prodigal son in the New Testament, parable of Jesus about heaven and the sinner who repents. A young man leaves home and becomes a wastrel; repentant, he returns to be received with joyful welcome. ... Read more
Jotham
Jotham , in the Bible. 1 The only one of Gideon's sons not killed by Abimelech; noted for his parable of the trees electing the bramble to be their king. 2 King of Judah, son of Uzziah. He was a contemporary of Isaiah, Hosea, and Micah. His name is also spelled Joatham. 3 Descendant of Caleb. ... Read more
Hosea Ballou
Hosea Ballou 1771-1852, American clergyman, foremost among expositors of Universalism in the United States, b. Cheshire co., N.H. From 1818 until his death he was pastor of the Second Universalist Society in Boston. One of the founders (1819) of the Universalist Magazine, he was its editor until ... Read more
Lazarus
Lazarus [Gr.,=Heb., Eleazar ], in the New Testament. 1 Brother of Mary and Martha of Bethany who, after four days in the tomb, was brought back to life by Jesus. 2 Beggar in the parable who lay suffering and neglected at the rich man's gate. After death the rich man, parching in hell, pleads i... Read more
allegory
allegory in literature, symbolic story that serves as a disguised representation for meanings other than those indicated on the surface. The characters in an allegory often have no individual personality, but are embodiments of moral qualities and other abstractions. The allegory is closely related... Read more
halakah
halakah or halacha [Heb.,=law], in Judaism, the body of law regulating all aspects of life, including religious ritual, familial and personal status, civil relations, criminal law, and relations with non-Jews. Halakah is the term used to designate both a particular ordinance and the law in the ... Read more
Gospel according to Saint Luke
Gospel according to Saint Luke third book of the New Testament. It was composed in the second half of the 1st cent. Since the 2d cent. it and the Acts of the Apostles have been ascribed to St. Luke; Acts is sometimes considered a sequel to the Gospel. Apparent sources for the Gospel are the Gospel ... Read more
Elizabeth Bowen
Elizabeth Bowen , 1899-1973, Anglo-Irish novelist, b. Dublin. In impeccable prose she treated love and frustration through studies of complex psychological relationships. Her novels include The Hotel (1927), To the North (1932), The House in Paris (1936), The Death of the Heart (1938), and ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Parable"

Banana Parable
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences Banana Parable The banana parable is found both in A Treatise on Money (Keynes 1930) and in John...that was brought out in Keynes ’ s “ banana parable. ” In the story Keyes envisions a simple economy that...
parable
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition parable the term translates the Hebrew...rhetorical tradition, however, "parables" were illustrative narrative...used in the Gospels, the "parable" not only denotes metaphors...illustrative narratives. In Jesus' parables, the speaker compares an...
Bernard Malamud
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...frequently interlaced, have been compared to parables, myths, and allegories and often illustrate...ordinary people, Malamud creates beautiful parables that capture the joy as well as the pain...story of torture and humiliation into a parable of human triumph. With The Tenants...
MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature ...renowned as an outstanding writer of radio documentaries and radio parable plays; these include Christopher Columbus (1944) and his...abridged version of Goethe's Faust (1951), and Varieties of Parable (from the 1963 Clark lectures) and a volume of autobiography...
Kahlil Gibran
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...the American firm of Alfred A. Knopf. The sometimes cynical parables and poems on justice, freedom, and God are illustrated by...sold over 1,000 copies in three months. The slim volume of parables, illustrated with Gibran's drawings, is one of America...
Sympathy
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...famous illustration of this response occurs in the biblical parable of the Good Samaritan, where a certain Samaritan stops to...the way from Jerusalem to Jericho. Sympathy, then, as this parable suggests, is a kind of positive response to another ’...
Hersey, John (Richard)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...of his experiences; The Child Buyer (1960), a satirical parable about modern education, which tells of a governmental buyer...dramatized by Paul Shyre (1964); White Lotus (1965), a parable of race relations, treating a mythical Oriental land in which...
Nathan, Robert (Gruntal)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...converted Jew in a Calvinist heaven; One More Spring (1933), a parable of Christian charity; Road of Ages (1935), about an imagined...The Train in the Meadow (1953); Sir Henry (1955), a parable about an aging, moonstruck knight; Rancho of the Little Loves...
Bruegel Family
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World ...on the Sea of Tiberius (1553) and the Landscape with the Parable of the Sower (1557), are within the world-landscape tradition...1568). In paintings like The Cripples (1568) and The Parable of the Blind Leading the Blind (1569), Bruegel returned...
Thurber, James (Grover)
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Literature ...Ross (1959). His essays, sketches, fables, stories, parables, and reminiscences, illustrated by his distinctive and fluid...popularizations of psychology; The Last Flower (1939), an ironic parable of modern war; Fables for Our Time, and Famous Poems Illustrated...

Dictionary entries related to "Parable"

parables
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...interpreting Jesus' parables as allegories...and action in the parable of the Good Samaritan...his book on the parables maintained that the essence of a genuine parable was that it has...unjust judge of the parable (Luke 18: 2...x2013;15). Such parables express the contrast...
raft parable
Book article from: A Dictionary of Buddhism raft parable. Often-cited parable that occurs in the Discourse on the Parable of the Water Snake ( Alagaddūpama Sutta ) in the Majjhima Nikāya of the Pāli Canon. The parable relates to a traveller who fords a...
Parable
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions Parable (Gk., parabolē...insistence on teaching in parables, implies something about...the thirty to forty gospel parables are found in Matthew (e...x2013;32). For Jewish parables, see MĀSHAL .
parable
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church parable. In the Synoptic Gospels...significance of the narrative. In Mt. parables are given a more moral thrust...Prodigal Son. Like Mt.'s parables they have moral purpose, but...allegories in Jn. are not designated parables.
sower, parable of the
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable sower, parable of the in the Bible (Matthew 13:3–8), the story told by Jesus of how ‘a sower went forth to sow’, to illustrate the varying readiness of those he taught to receive Jesus's message.
allegory
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...gospels, some of the parables are already given an...which the details of the parable are said to contain...rigorous view that Jesus' parables had invariably only...some allegory in his parables. Taking Paul's distinction...all the details in the parable of the Good Samaritan...
forgiveness
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...sins of others (Matt. 6: 12). The parable of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15: 11...has almost certainly been attached to ' parable by the evangelist himself to accord with...it is incongruous. The meaning of the parable is straightforward enough: that God...
Good Samaritan
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...Samaritan The usual name given to Jesus' parable in Luke 10: 29–37. It is...expected, a lay Israelite (so that the parable would have been a straightforward piece...and gave assistance, and more. So the parable turns out to be anti-racist.
kingdom of God
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...Luke 11: 20). The main thrust of the parables is that of the mysterious arrival of...Kingdom is obscure and expressed in the parables in which the seed is hidden in the ground...seventy times seven; the Samaritan of the parable did help a wounded Jew.
Form Criticism
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...as a series of incidents, miracles , parables , and injunctions strung together with...interpretation and explanation of the parable of the Sower (Mark 4: 10–...mission. Or there may be additions to a parable (e.g. Luke 19: 27) which reflect...

Thesaurus entries related to "Parable"

parable
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus parable • noun  the parable of the prodigal son synonyms : allegory, moral story/tale, fable, exemplum.
allegory
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus allegory • noun  Saramago's latest novel is an allegory of social disintegration synonyms : parable, analogy, metaphor, symbol, emblem.
fable
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English fable • noun   1. a fable about a fox synonyms : tale, fairy tale, moral tale, parable.   2. heroes in Norse fables synonyms : story, legend, myth, traditional story, saga, epic, lay.   3...
tale
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...xA0; 1. a tale of witches synonyms : story, narrative, anecdote, report, account, history; legend, fable, myth, parable, allegory, saga; informal yarn.   2. she told tales to her mother synonyms : lie, fib, falsehood, story, untruth...
story
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus ...story folk tale ghost story gothic novel historical novel horror story just-so story legend morality tale mystery myth parable romance saga shaggy-dog story short story tearjerker thriller tragedy traveler's tale true story urban myth
myth
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Thesaurus of Current English ...x2022; noun   1. read ancient myths synonyms : legend, saga, tale, story, fable, folk tale, allegory, parable, fairy tale/story, bestiary.   2. her having a rich father was just a myth synonyms : fantasy, delusion, figment...
illustrative
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus illustrative • adjective  the parables are wonderfully illustrative synonyms : exemplifying, explanatory, elucidative, explicative, expository, exegetical; demonstrative...

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The Parables Of Jesus: A Commentary. (Book Reviews).
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 12/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...sayings identified as parables by one scholar or...definition of a parable as "a figure of...audience of each parable. He admits that...categorization of parables is problematic...To categorize the parables as he does, H...audience for each parable can be identified...
The Parables of Jesus: A Commentary
Magazine article from: Trinity Journal; 10/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...works] is a study of the parables that is comprehensive, drawing upon the wealth of parable research, and that is...theological" (p. xi). The Parables of Jesus contains ten chapters...methodology. Hultgren defines a parable as "a figure of speech...
PARABLES DISCUSSED IN WEEKLY SERIES.(News)
Newspaper article from: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA); 7/2/2005; 700+ words ; ...the best-known parables in the New Testament...Burbank. ``A parable is an illustration...class is to make the parables understandable for...or implied in the parable of the week because...whose favorite parable, ``The Pharisee...Why did Jesus use parables and what would he...
The Parables: Jewish Tradition and Christian Interpretation
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...interpretation, and that "parables in their concise story...examples such as Nathan's parable to David in 2 Sam 12...Aristotle's discussion of parables in his Rhetoric? Young...eschatological dimension to the parables; rather, they give...in insisting that a parable, in contrast to ...
The parables of Jesus
Magazine article from: Interpretation; 7/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...earlier work on the parables of Jesus and to give...sense of where we are in parable interpretation today...graduate seminar on the parables, he invited me to sit...retrospect): Your parable interpretation is great...discussing reconstructed parables, parables reconstituted...
Parables as Poetic Fictions: The Creative Voice of Jesus
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...Hedrick's stress on the parables as stories is to be...underlying images of the parables. By showing how farming...techniques cast light on the parable of the sower, and how...society illuminates the parable of the unjust judge...consonantal sounds) in the parables. While this is ...
The Parables of Jesus: A Commetary
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly; 4/1/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...single unit. Each parable appears with an...The thirty-eight parables are grouped under...aspect in the parables and criticizes as...just about every parable he raises the issue...challenges of the parable to be heard. Thus...interpreting the parables of J
Parables and the Enneagram.
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter; 8/9/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...nine numbers. Just listen to my parables." The book begins with an introduction on the parables of Jesus, what they were intended to do, why Jesus used the parable form in his teachings and how parables are related to the enneagram...
Parables as Subversive Speech: Jesus as Pedagogue of the Oppressed.
Magazine article from: Theological Studies; 9/1/1995; ; 700+ words ; ...read in previous parable research. He knows...attempts to connect the parables to the historical...considers a series of parables under the rubric...titles tell all. The parable of the Laborers...this selection of parables. The exercise is...of the difficult parable of the ...
Parable Introduces Multimedia For The Masses
PR Newswire; 4/28/1997; 700+ words ; ...Mass., April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Parable today outlined its plans to release a...their creations on the World Wide Web. Parable's radically simple-to-use software...said Eric Bedell, President and CEO of Parable. "When fully distilled to its component...