The Rabbinic Parables and Jesus the Parable Teller

The author somehow fictionalizes reality by creatively reflecting it to change the given reality

Parables—including Jesus’ parables—thus belong to didactic literature

The silent consensus between the narrator and listener about the meaning of the subject and its motifs is quite sufficient to understand the parable

view of the solution.

Therefore, the action in the subject is often constructed from the point of

good parable must not be artificially constructed from the moral of the story.

understand Jesus’ parables, we must know the nature of Jewish (rabbinic) parables. Jesus’ parables belong, as I have often said, to this genre of literature.

should do better than we consider necessary for securing our future salvation.

oil means commandments and good deeds

Jesus as he who knew himself amid a wedding feast, and as he who is yet to come? In any case, the parable of the virgins is the only sure parable of Jesus in which he speaks of the coming Son of Man.