Index of Subjects
Ademar
115–16
Aesop
animal, as
261–62,
craftiness, shrewdness, trickery of
124, 187–89, 347–48,
subversive speech
death of
,
see death of fable teller
disability and
123–24, 261–62, 271, 278'
early traditions about
74–77, 83'
historical figure, as
74–77,
humanity of
261–62,
humbleness of
28–29, 45, 270, 278–79,
low wisdom, Life of Aesop
,
see Life of Aesop
name
262–64,
physical appearance of
75–76, 124, 261–63, 362,
prophet, as
125, 250–51, 287–90,
race of
262–63,
rehabilitation of
91, 124, 269–73,
relation to later fabulists
91, 113, 116–17,
slave, as
74–77, 124,
slavery
Aesop Romance
,
see Life of Aesop
aesthetic features of fable collections
459–77
deliberate arrangements in
460–67,
thematic links in
460–67,
twin fables
460
African American folk literature
259–60
agonistic fables
319–22
Ahiqar
49, 77, 102, 106–107, 125, 268, 519
and mashal
49,
and Life of Aesop
ainos αἶνος see terminology for fable
Akiva, rabbi
181–84
allegory
111, 265–66, 283–89, 461–62
analogy, as meaning of παραβολη
208–224
animals
as fable characters
65–66, 340–44, 351–52,
talking animals in
31–41, 158, 166–70, 374
myths about the fable, Golden Age
Aphthonius
38, 89, 142–45, 152, 156–57
“rational” fables
166–68, 237–39,
sample fables from
144–45
apocalyptic
435–36
Apollonius of Tyana
28–29, 73, 270
applications
,
see epimythium
Archaic Period, fables in
65–68
Archilochus
66–68, 82
Aristophanes
69–70, 87, 89
Aristotle
λόγοι in
209–217,
λόγοι as “narrative parable”
211–15,
παραβολή as “comparison” in
209–17,
παραβολή as “simile” in
211–15
influence on parable interpretation
20–22, 209–16, 237,
influence on Demetrius of Phalerum
78–79,
antigelasticism
357–60,
humor
audience
413–417,
“you”
Augustana Collection
81, 90, 107–123, 519
aesthetic features of
462–64,
authorship
118–22,
connection to The Life of Aesop
119–20, 122,
date
119–20,
manuscripts of
118–19, 121–22,
redaction of
119–21,
sample fables from
36–37,
sources
122–23
authorial presence in fables
192, 255–91
Avianus
89, 98, 271–73, 323–24, 466–67
Babrius, fabulist, fable collection
90–107, 464–66
addressee
96–97,
aesthetic features of the collection
464–66,
Ahiqar and
106–107,
characterization of
257, 271, 416,
date of
95–96,
fable examples from
34, 92,
fables of moral conflict
312–14,
location
97–98,
manuscript tradition
98–102,
name
105–106,
prose paraphrase
48,
relation to Aesop
91,
Semitic influences
97, 105–107,
Septuagint, influenced by
102–106,
sources of fable collection
102,
use in education
93–95,
use of direct speech
310–14
Balaam’s donkey
61
Bar Kappara
187–92
Beispielerzählung
20–21, 206–207, 213–14
Ben Zakkai, Johanan
175–79
Ben Hananiah, Joshua
179–81
Berechiah ha-Nakdan
243–44
biblical scholarship
,
see parable scholarship
blasphemy
250–51, 286
Brer Rabbit
260
Callimachus of Cyrene
82–83, 87
cartoons, comics
168, 365, 369–70
catechesis
453, 516–21
Chambry numbers
52–56
characters
339–83
stock characters
340–44,
stereotype characters
340–44,
underdogs
339–71,
distinctiveness of Luke’s
451–53, 514,
characterization, children fables, farmer fables, fisherman fables, fool fables, shepherd fables, women fables
characterization of fable teller
,
fable tellers
craftiness, shrewdness, trickster, picaro
124, 187–89, 347–48,
slave, as
74–77, 111–13, 259–67,
sophist, teacher, as
267–77, 280–83, 422
characterization
in fables
339–83,
soliloquy and
111, 308–14
children fables
36–37, 110, 247, 284–87, 307, 325–330, 461
chreia
136, 144–50
biblical scholarship on
146–47,
to build plot
443–45,
and fable
334–36,
in the New Testament
146–50
classical modern interpretation
232–39
Classical period, fables in
68–77
rhetorical use of
68–70,
educational use of
71–72
coded speech
,
see subversive speech
comedy
,
see humor
comparison, as meaning of parabolē παραβολή
208–24
composing fables
73, 150–55, 171–72
contrapasso
370
craftiness
,
see phronimos φρονίµος
Crafty Steward
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 16:1–13
ethics, phronimos, trickster fables
cunning
,
see phronimos φρονίµος
Cybisses, fable teller
178, 258
daughter fables
,
see children fables
Dead Sea Scrolls
435–37
death of fable teller
28, 72–73, 114, 181–84, 250–51, 272, 283–89
defining “fable”
17–18, 29, 52, 155–60, 221–25
defining “parable”
42–44, 201–225, 237–39
from Aristotle’s fable
20–22, 208–17,
from the progymnasmata
17–18, 157, 170–71, 236–41,
terminological joker card, parable as
63–64
Demetrius of Phalerum
biography
77–78,
fable collections of
79–82,
relation to first-century fabulists
81–82, 119, 122–23
Dio Chrysostom
67–68, 276–77,
fable tellers, characterization of fable tellers
direct speech
301–314
as characteristic of Luke
301–14,
as characteristic of fable
66, 83, 92, 111, 295, 301–14
Dishonest Manager
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 16:1–13
ethics, phronimos, trickster fables
early Church
against Aesop
278,
against humor
357–60,
disdain for fable
531–33,
(mis)interpretation of fables in
531–33,
“parable” as invention of
207–208, 532–33
Early Judaism, fable tradition and
30, 63–64, 535–36
Early Modern interpretation
239–41
education in antiquity
131–55,
progymnasmata
ancient Christianity and
131–32,
fables in
17–18, 29, 52, 71–72, 91, 131–72, 271, 416, 422–25,
gospel authors and
171–72, 516–21,
Jewish education
176,
stability of ancient system
132–34, 141–44,
stages of
132–34
eikōn εἴκων
20–21, 156, 201–225
embedding fables into narratives
40, 150–51, 386, 420–27, 536
entertainment, pleasant, fables as
138, 154–55, 277, 361–62, 283, 395
epimythium
151–55, 257–58, 384–95, 420–27,
promythium
creating new lessons
427–31,
examples in Luke
407–413,
form and style
406–413,
function in education
391–92,
multiple for one fable
391–95,
reader orientation of
413–17,
“you,”
shift from promythium
387,
source critical value of
489–90, 513–14
eschatology
421, 435–36, 445
ethics
φρονίµος and
342–57
ethical reasoning
309–14, 530,
of fables
91, 116, 138, 171, 309–10, 340–82, 530,
of lower class
344–57,
of L fables
408–409, 428–29, 447, 483, 540,
morally dubious characters
67, 339–81,
of “parables”
234–36
ethnic varieties of fable
168–70, 195–97,
Sybaritic fable
fable collections
79–129
fable scholarship
rejecting distinction with parables
12–13,
important works of
44–57,
languages used in
46–49,
implications of Jesus’s fables for
41, 536–37
fable tellers
Aesop as
76–77, 123–25, 128–29,
Aesop
Bar Kappara as
187–91, 258,
Dio Chrysostom as
276–77,
Horace as
164, 273–76,
Jesus as
254–91, 533–34, 536,
known by name only
70, 89,
Phaedrus as,
110–14,
Plutarch as
270–71
farmer fables
35–37, 39, 110, 145, 167, 219, 247, 286, 310–12, 350, 371–72, 375, 377, 380–81, 464–65
feminist hermeneutics
366–71
fictionality, scale of
378–79
Fig Tree
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 13:6–9
,
farmer fables
fisherman fables
35, 37–38, 42, 252, 297, 307
Fish Net see New Testament Index, Matthew 13:47–50
,
fisherman fables
fool fables
310–13, 317–19, 340–44, 370–71
Foolish Farmer
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 12:15–21
,
farmer fables, fool fables
forensic oratory
68–70, 125, 216–17
forgetting the fable
in antiquity
185–87,
by biblical scholars
7, 398–99,
by classicists
44–45,
by the modern West
231–32
form criticism
293–337
of “parable”
294–95,
of “fable”
294–95,
pronomina indefinita
296–301,
direct speech and
301–314,
fable structure
314–34,
expanding and condensing narratives
322–34
Friend at Midnight
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 11:5–10
,
shamelessness, ethics
Garden of Eden
373,
Golden Age
genre
3–7, 11–19, 201–225, 293–94, 339–40, 400, 438,
interpretation
ancient theory of
11,
approaches to
11, 400,
Bakhtinian approach to
339–81,
formal approach to
293–337,
interpretation as guide to
383–448
Gleichnis
,
see simile
global genre, fable as
38, 168–70, 195–97
god fables
37, 86, 97, 104, 153–54, 193, 287–88, 297, 311, 318, 349, 372–76, 385–86, 393, 424, 436, 462–63, 488–89
God in Luke
375–76, 379, 488–89
Golden Age, as setting for animal fables
40, 373–74
Good Samaritan
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 10:25–37
Graeco-Roman education
,
see education in antiquity
Graeco-Semitic genre, fable as
31, 205, 225, 535
Great Dinner
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 14:15–24
Halm numbers
54
Hausrath numbers
53–54
Hebrew Bible
fables in
28, 59–65,
lack of “true parables” in
30–31, 60–65, 203–205,
as source for Jesus
29–30, 63–65
Hellenistic genre, fable as
29–31, 173–99,
see myths about the fable
Hellenistic period, fables in
51–52, 77–87
Hermeneumata
138–39
hidden transcript
,
see subversive speech
historical Jesus
3–5, 533–34
as unique “parable” teller
3–5, 533–34,
fable as context for
533–34,
Jewishness of
10, 29–30, 172–73,
“parables” as windows into
10,
quests for
11
Homer
67–68, 76–77, 123, 140, 153, 161, 171, 174, 217, 220, 284
Horace
164, 273–76,
fable tellers, characterization of fable teller
“human” fables
14, 34, 36–37, 39–41, 339–81
human and animal world
33–34, 370,
Golden Age
humor
absence of in parables
22, 234–35, 238–39, 357–60,
fables as humorous
22, 69–70, 116, 169, 357–71
Indian fables
59–60, 183
injustice in fables
261, 266, 350–57, 369–70, 424
interior monologue
,
see soliloquy
interpolation
100, 438–42
interpretation
383–448,
epimythium
creating new lessons
427–31,
multiple morals
391–95, 419–27,
parable interpretation derived from fable
396–400,
single point approach
395–401
impossibility
371–80,
realism
inner thoughts
,
see soliloquy
introspection
68, 307,
soliloquy
ipsissima verba of Jesus
9–10, 333–34, 337, 455–56, 533–34
irony
276, 370–71
Jesus
characterization of
255–91, 422–23, 516–20, 533–34, 536
characterization of fable teller
,
historical Jesus
,
see historical Jesus
Jewish Aesops
187–92, 243–44
Jewish genre, fable as
29–31, 97, 173–99,
Semitic genre, fable as
John, Gospel of
παροιµία relation to fable
527–28
fables in
527–28,
absence of παραβολή in
527–28,
John Rylands Papyrus
493,
fable collection
83–87
contents of
85–87,
promythia in
85–87,
epimythia
87,
use of
83–84
Judge and the Widow
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 18:1–8
,
ethics, women fables
Jülicher, Adolf, parable theory of
“narrative parable” as fable
20–23, 212–14,
single point interpretation approach
395–401
kairos καιρός
352–53, 326–27, 526
kingdom of God, association with “parables”
9,
absence in L fables
400, 445–47, 480–83
l’action finale
315–36
l’action de choix
315–36
la donnée
315–36
Lessing, fable theory
15–16, 43, 396–400
lessons
,
see epimythium
letteraturizzazione
89
L fables
,
characters, Lukan Fable Collection
examples of
9,
similarity among
6, 451–53, 514
Life of Aesop
75–77, 123–29, 249–51, 519, 524
Ahiqar and
77, 125,
biblical scholarship on
16–17, 128–29,
date of
126,
differences between versions
285–86, 288,
fables in
39–40, 223–24, 283–89,
genres in
222–24,
location of composition
126,
plot
123–25,
proverb in
223,
recensions of
126–28,
relation to Augustana Collection
119–20, 122,
similarity to the Gospels
39, 49, 127–29,
simile in
223–24
literate education
,
see education in antiquity
L material
Aesopic connections in
248–53,
didactic orientation of
280–83, 290, 516–20,
quotation of fables by Jesus in
56, 248–49
logos λόγος
,
see terminology for fable
Lost Coin
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 15:8–10
,
treasure fables, women fables
Lost Sheep see New Testament Index, Matthew 18:10–14
,
Luke 15:4–7 shepherd fables
,
treasure fables
low wisdom fable as
28–29, 45, 268–70, 278–80,
stigma of fable genre
mashal and
177, 184–91
L source
450–51,
L material, Lukan Fable Collection
Lukan Fable Collection
449–522
absence of kingdom of God in
480–83,
aesthetic features of
467–77,
alternative source-critical explanations for
512–14,
arrangement in
454–58,
asyndeton in
497–504, 513,
audience of
516–21,
authorship of
520–21,
catchphrases between fables in
468–76,
catchwords in
475–77,
conjunctions in
495–97,
contents of
515–16,
date of
520–21,
ethics of
408–409, 428–29, 447, 483, 540,
historical present in
491–95,
location of composition
520–21,
Lukan speaking formula, absence in
504–509,
parataxis in
495–97,
quantity of material in
512–13,
Sitz im Leben of
516–20,
style and vocabulary of
490–512,
twin fables in
468–76,
vocabulary in
509–12
Lukan speaking formula
329, 404, 432, 489, 496, 504–509
Mark, Gospel of
fables in
527,
and non–human “parables”
527
mashal משׁל
fox meshalim
31, 176–79,
fuller meshalim
176–79,
Hebrew term for both “parables” and “fables”
174, 239–40, 243–44,
in rabbinic literature see rabbinic meshalim
not referring to “parable” in Hebrew Bible
63–64, 174, 203–206,
relation to nimshal
536,
translated as fable
197–98
Matthew, Gospel of
fables in
438–42, 524–25,
simile and fable
524–25,
Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
524–25
Meir, rabbi
184–87
Mesopotamian fables
59–60, 196, 306
meta–fables (fables about fables)
185–87
Middle Ages
242–45
morals of the fable
,
see epimythium
muthos µῦθος see terminology for fable
myths about the fable
27–41
as children’s literature
27–29,
as a Hellenistic genre
29–31,
rabbinic fable tellers
talking animal stories
31–41, 67,
characters
,
realism in
31–41,
realism
myths about parable
41–44
absence of humor in
,
see humor, syndrome of reverence
as a Jewish genre
29–31, 198,
virtuous ethics of
,
see ethics
realism in
,
see realism
narration, levels of
258 287, 332, 346, 386, 415, 427
“narrative parable” see true parable
narrativity, breakdown of
403–405, 423, 426, 497–504, 513
Nathan’s Ewe Lamb fable
28, 42–43, 60–61, 158, 268, 279
neglect of fable in research
,
see forgetting the fable
New Comedy
303–305
non-elite literature, fable as
,
see low wisdom
numbering systems
47, 52–56
Old Babylonian period
59–60
Old Testament
,
see Hebrew Bible
old wives’ tales
28–29, 274–76, 278, 290, 532
oral literature, fable as
45–46
origin of fable
27–31, 259,
slavery
parabolē παραβολή
absence of humans in
217–20,
absence of “parables” outside of the Synoptic Gospels
5, 247, 526–28,
in ancient rhetoric
208–25,
Aristotle and
208–217,
as “analogy” or “comparison”
205–225,
as equivalent for mashal
203,
as “parable”
201–209,
Gospel of Luke usage of
202–203,
in Hebrews
221
“parable” as concept derived from Synoptic Gospels
63–64, 197–98,
“parable” theory and
201–27,
referring to fables
201–208,
referring to many genres
201–208,
rendering into Latin
222
parable collection
,
see Lukan Fable Collection
parable scholarship
history of
8–20,
implausibility of status quaestionis
,3–5, 17, 201–206, 225–27,
comparing parable and fable
11–20,
fable confused for parable in
201–207,
fable unknown to
7, 19–20, 253,
theological motivations in
36, 235–36,
waves of
8–11
paraphrasing fables
330–34
paroimia παροιµία
222–23
as folded fable
221–22,
in John, παροιµία of
527–28
paratextuality
84–85, 315, 344, 384–85, 427
Paul the Apostle
fables and
528–30,
comparative ethics
530
Perroti Appendix
115–16
Perry numbers
46–47, 52–56
personification
,
see animals, prosopopoeia, zoomorphism
Phaedrus, fabulist, fable collection
107–17
addressees
108,
aesthetic features of collection
460–62,
characterization of
110–14,
classical education and
107,
condemned wise men tradition
73, 114,
date
114,
fable examples from
108–110,
manuscript tradition
114–16,
relation to Aesop
113, 116–17,
slavery and
111–13, 264–67,
sources of
116–117
Pharisee and the Tax Collector see New Testament Index, Luke 18:9–14
vices and virtues
phronimos φρονίµος
124, 260, 300, 344–57, 437–38, 526
as tool of the weak
342–57,
morality of
342–57,
ethics
Physiologus
433–35
physiognomy
75–86, 263–64, 271
picaro
124, 347–48,
trickster fables
Place at the Table
,
see New Testament Index, Matthew 20:28 (variant reading), Luke 14:7–11
plot structure
67, 314–34, 443–45
Plutarch
270–71,
fable teller, characterization of fable teller
possibility
,
see realism
Pounds
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 19:11–27
power, fable and
45, 61, 66–67, 190, 259–61, 265, 344–57
prayer
303, 313–14, 427–31,
vice and virtue
primary education
135–38
fables in
136–38,
subjects of
135–38
Prodigal Son
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 15:11–32
,
children fables, fool fables
progymnasmata
141–71
biblical scholarship on
17, 142–43, 237–39,
chreia in
146–50,
composing epimythium
151–55,
composing fables in
150–55,
compressing fables
330–34,
defining fable from
155–60,
expanding fables in
325–30,
fable exercise of
150–55,
“parable” defined from
17, 157, 170–71, 236–41,
redaction of fables in
150–55
prologue, Lukan
517–520
promythium
257–58, 300, 384–95,
epimythium
contents of
405–406,
examples in Luke
403–406,
form and style of
400–406,
source critical value of
489–90, 513–14
prophecy
,
see prophet
prophet, fable and
60–61, 125, 168–69, 185, 250–51, 283–90
prose literature, fable and
32, 36, 160–63, 261, 271
prosopopoeia
151, 280, 308–14, 343, 375–76
protest, fable as
191, 259–60, 283–89,
subversive speech
,
Nathan’s Ewe Lamb fable
proverb
164, 202–207, 221–24,
paroimia
prudence
,
see phronimos
Prudent Manager
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 12:42–46
,
phronimos, kairos
pseudorealism
377–79,
realism
public transcript
259,
subversive speech
Q
absence of παραβολή in
525,
fables in
249, 252, 525–27,
fable vocabulary in
526,
used for epimythia
526–27
Quintilian
135–38, 164–65, 221–22, 277
rabbinic fable tellers
175–91
rabbinic mashal
characteristics of
195,
death of the fable teller tradition in
181–84,
disappearance of fable tellers
184–87,
emerging from Hellenistic fables
15–16,
examples adapted from Hellenistic fables
192–95,
Jewish education, fable in
176,
legal argumentation, mashal and
185,
low wisdom, and
177, 184–91,
rhetoric and
179–81
rabbis
popularity of fables with
15, 19, 30–31, 173–99,
relationship to Jesus
3–4, 11, 19, 173–75, 197–98
race, see Aesop, ethnic varieties of fable
rational fables, “parables” as
165–71, 237–39, 371–80
reader orientation
of fable
413–17,
of Lukan gospel
282–83,
“you”
realism
31–41, 165–71, 232–36, 341–42, 371–80,
rational fables
redaction
compressing and paraphrasing fables
330–34,
expanding fables in
325–30,
progymnasmata training in
150–55,
style
,
ipsissima verba of Jesus
Rejection at Nazareth and Life of Aesop
249–51
relationship between fable collections
,
see synoptic problem of fable collections
repertorium
74, 81–82, 83–85
réplique finale
315–36
resurrection
125, 283–87
reverence, syndrome of
365
rhetorical use of fable
68–72, 278,
progymnasmata
Rich Fool
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 12:15–21
,
farmer fables, fool fables
Rich Man and Lazarus
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 16:19–31
,
contrapasso, ethics, vice and virtue
riddle
124, 161, 174, 189–90, 202–203, 207, 267,
subversive speech
romance
303–305
Samson and the foxes
61, 145, 537
scribal activity
438–42
secondary education, fables in
139–40
Semitic genre, fable as
29–31, 173–75, 195–99, 225
Septuagint
48–49, 78, 102–105, 203–204, 537
Shameless Neighbor
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 11:5–10
,
shamelessness, ethics
shamelessness
345, 357, 363,
ethics
shepherd fables
35, 43, 80, 85–86, 144, 310, 333, 350, 352, 377, 525
shrewdness
,
see φρονίµος
simile
,
see eikōn
single point interpretation, failure of
395–401, 432–38
slavery, context of fable
74–77, 111–13, 124, 259–67,
power, low wisdom, characterization of fable teller
Socrates
composing fables
72–73,
educating using fables
71–72,
tradition of condemned wise men
72–73,
death of fable teller
,
as subject of fables
461,
using Aesopic mode
268–70
soliloquy
as characteristic of fable
66–68, 306–308 301–14,
as characteristic of Luke
301–14,
as direct characterization
308–14,
prosopopoeia
,
source critical value of
379, 483–89
son fables
,
see children fables
Son of Man
149, 403, 421, 442
Sondergut see L material
sophists and fables
shunning or embracing the genre
28–29, 267–77, 280–83,
characterization of fable teller
source criticism
5–6, 449–522,
Lukan Fable Collection
alternative source-critical explanations
512–14,
L source
450–51,
methodology
450–51,
parable collection theory
450–59,
relevance of fable features for
479–90,
stylistic evidence
490–512
Special L material
,
see L material
Stesichorus
21, 206, 211–13
stigma of fable genre
164, 235–36, 268–70, 273–76, 462
among parable scholars
36, 232–36,
removing stigma from fable and Aesop
269–73
style
490–512
asyndeton
497–504, 513,
conjunctions
495–97,
historical present
491–95,
Lukan speaking formula
504–509,
parataxis
495–97,
direct speech, form criticism soliloquy, τις pronomina indefinita
subdivisions of fables by characters or possibility
165–71, 357–81,
“rational” fable, myths of the fable
subversive speech, fable as
259–60, 265–66, 277–78, 283–89,
low wisdom, power
Sumerian fables
59–60
survenant
316–17
Sybaritic fable
38, 69, 156, 166–71, 195, 218
synoptic problem of fable collections
50, 81, 123
Syntipas
30
Syriac
30–31, 244
taboo, fable as
,
see stigma of fable genre
talking animals
31–41, 65–66, 340–44, 351–52,
animals, myths about the fable, Golden Age
terminological joker card, “parable” as
63–64
terminology for fable
12, 28–29, 52, 71–72, 160–65, 209–17, 294,
mashal, Syriac, Nordic languages
themes in the fable
339–83
theological motivations, in biblical scholarship
36, 235–36
Theon
38–39, 132, 142–43 150–56, 160–63, 165–71, 332–33, 377–78
Theophilus
516–20
Thomas, Gospel of
247, 530–31
absence of parabolē ⲡⲁⲣⲁⲃⲟⲗⲏ in
247, 527–28,
fables in
245–27, 530–31,
relation to canonical Gospels
530–31
tis τις (pronomina indefinita)
as fable genre marker
296–301,
as characteristic of Luke
296–301
treasure fables
37, 219, 223, 247, 297, 309, 319, 371–72, 375, 462
Treasure Hidden in a Field
,
see New Testament Index, Matthew 13:44
,
treasure fables
tricksters
187–91, 342–57,
phronimos, subversive speech, Aesop, Bar Kappara
trickster fables
344–57, 385–86
“true parable”
absence before Jesus
, 3–5,
absence in Hebrew Bible
205–206,
as fable
201–206, 209–17, 224–25
twin fables
460–76
Two Debtors
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 7:41–42
Two Sons
,
see New Testament Index, Matthew 21:28–32
,
children fables
underdog characters
339–71,
Aesop, phronimos, low wisdom
unfolded proverb, fable as
221–22
vice and virtue
111, 136–38, 171, 290, 340–41, 388, 408–409, 434, 461–62, 466, 483, 530, 540
epimythium, ethics
vulgarity
357–60,
syndrome of reverence
Warring King
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 14:31–32
“Western” text
149, 438–42
Widow and the Judge
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 18:1–8
,
ethics, women fables
Wicked Tenants
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 20:9–19
,
allegory, characterization of fable teller, death of fable teller
Widow of Tekoa
61
women fables
170, 193–94, 310, 336, 344, 362–70, 375
Wedding Feast
,
see New Testament Index, Matthew 22:1–14
Workers in the Vineyard
,
see New Testament Index, Matthew 20:1–16
Worthless Slaves
,
see New Testament Index, Luke 17:7–10
,
slavery
Xanthus
74, 124–25, 187–88, 190, 263–64, 348
“you,” the reader, addressee, audience
257, 282–83, 410–17, 425, 438, 501–502
zoomorphism
15, 251–52, 261–62, 280, 434