Today’s Gospel again addresses the question of why Jesus taught in parables. The scriptures reveal language filled with imagery and analogy, storytelling and nuance. Hebrew amplified meaning by ...

Farid ud-Din Attar revolutionized Persian poetry not with complex philosophy, but through powerful allegories.

The importance of the parables can hardly be overestimated. They comprise a substantial part of the recorded preaching of Jesus. The parables are generally regarded by scholars as among the sayings ...

In every epoch of the history of literature there are some books that become “classics”, something like “books of the century”, offering their times a paradigmatic image, thus having a major impact ...