Internal Parables in Kainilai

Eschatology and the Parables

In any attempt to understand the teaching of Jesus as recorded in the Synoptic Gospels, a consideration of the parables must take an important place. This is demonstrated not merely by the plethora of critical study and popular exposition to which the parables have given rise, but above all by the place which the parables occupy in the Synoptic tradition. According to A. M. Hunter roughly one t...

The Parables of Jesus in Recent Study

I. THE TRADITION OF ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION The history of parabolic interpretation can be divided into four relatively distinct periods. During the Period of the Early Church (to 540) a tendency toward allegorical interpretation was firmly established. Despite certain protests the three-fold method of allegorical interpretation championed by Origen dominated the exegesis not only of the par...

NiNe Rules to Guide iN the iNteRpRetatioN of paRables

Hurrian Meter and Phonology in the Boğazköy Parables

I offer evidence for a syllable-counting but non-isosyllabic meter, with lines in groups of 2-3, forming semantic units. Within these groups, the average difference in syllable count between lines is significantly lower than it is between non-grouped lines. The similarity within groups of lines suggests that, despite apparent differences based on the orthography, lines within groups may have ma...

Constitutional Law and the Teaching of the Parables