"allegory" = parable

[Jonathan Lighter]

Why do I imagine that the millions have never heard of this book?

JL

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Herb Stahlke <hfwstahlke at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Oden, Thomas C., ed.  1978.  Parables of Kierkegaard.  Princeton, NJ:
> Princeton University Press.
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> Herb
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> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 5:22 PM, Jonathan Lighter
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> > The History Channel's show on Beowulf (2009) explains that the dragon
> > epsiode is "an allegory about the dangers of greed."
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> > Maybe "allegory" sounds right to  I presume millions because only Jesus
> > tells "parables."
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> > JL
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