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Welcome once again to the Naked Bible Podcast.

In the last podcast episode, we continued our series on studying the Bible in light of

its various types of literature.

Its literary genres.

We looked at an example related to the New Testament, how the literary features of Greco-Roman

phantom tales and post-mortem appearances of the dead, inform our reading of New Testament

resurrection accounts.

In this episode, we're going to focus on a type of literature that appears in both

testaments, but which is most familiar in the New Testament, the parable.

Now in most basic terms, a parable is a short story with two levels of meaning, a literalistic

one or a surface meaning to the story, and a more abstract meaning, often a theological

meaning when it comes to the New Testament.

For this reason, it's common to describe a parable as a story where the elements of the

story are familiar and coherent in a literal telling and in a literal interpretation, but

where those elements also might symbolize or represent something quite different in

literal terms, but still be conceptually related in the more abstract terms.

The familiar parable of Jesus about the lost sheep is useful for grasping what I'm

talking about here.

The narrative about sheep being lost and without a shepherd is quite easily understood

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