A thorough survey of the history of parable interpretation from the period of the Church Fathers to the present, with the most extensive bibliography to date on the parables as a whole and on individual parables.
A "new hermeneutic" attempt to interpret Jesus' parables as "language events" in search of existential meaning. The survey of the history of the parable study is useful for beginners. The bibliography is 200 page long. Good for library reference shelf.