For many years, the exegesis of the parables of Jesus was determined by assump­ tions that were largely purported by Adolf Jülicher and subsequently underwent only insignificant modification. The Kompendium der Gleichnisse Jesu (ed. R. Zimmermann, Gütersloh 2007), whose methodology and hermeneutics are explained in this article, takes a new route, as can be illustrated in four steps. From a his...

This study aims to explore the understanding of meaning in parables by Indian students. The adaptation and modification Roland Barthes’s Semiotic Theory Lev Vygotsky’s Social Constructivism were used as basis study. A qualitative design was this conducted a regular daily secondary school Selangor involving five students, where Malay is second language. Parables are one types proverbs contained ...

Post-mastectomy breast reconstruction has become the standard of care in the western world. Breast reconstruction using autologous tissue can be performed in a safe, reliable and predictable fashion. The ultimate goal is to reconstruct a symmetrical autologous tissue mound co parable in shape, size and volume to the opposite breast without compromising the oncology clearance. Abdominal tissue r...

WAITING BEFORE THE LAW IN KAFKA’S PARABLE “BEFORE THE LAW” WE SEE, quite famously, that the story’s protagonist (known only as “the man from the country”) is forced to wait before the gate of law for his whole life. The gatekeeper, whose only purpose seems to be to bar the man’s way, keeps him sitting on a stool just before the gate. As the man is dying from old age, he has this well-known exch...