Hearing the parables of Jesus / Pheme Perkins.

Contents: What's in a parable? -- Wisdom, proverb and parable -- Religion and story -- Hints for reading parables -- Parables of growth -- God in parables -- Allegory : When is a parable not a parable? -- The good samaritan : Parable of the love command -- Reversal, equality and reward -- Ethics and the parables -- God and his people -- Appendix : The parables. Abstract: "Studies of the pa…