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| Parables are ordinary stories, brief fictions realistically protraying
aspects of first-century Palestinian life… Read as poetic fictions the stories
of Jesus do not inevitably produce a single specific summary
"meaning," but rather legitimize a limited range of plausible
readings. Charles W. Hedrick, Parables as Poetic Fictions: The Creative Voice of Jesus 3-4 |
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| With Jesus, the device of parabolic utterance is used not to explain things
to people's satisfaction but to call attention to the unsatisfactoriness of all
their previous explanations and understandings. Robert Farrar Capon, The Parables of the Kingdom, page 6 |
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