A Literary Folkloristic Methodology for the Study of Meaning in Personal Narrative

Abstract

Especially throughout the book of Matthew, Jesus is given to ending various parables with the quip, He who has ears, let him which in turn provokes the disciples to ask, Why do you speak to them in parables? Jesus replies, This is why I speak to them in parables, because seeing they do not see, and hearing they do not hear, nor do they understand. Later, he adds, But blessed are your eyes, for they see, and your ears, for they hear.' While it may seem out of character for Jesus to bait his audience this way, he is actually practicing a time-honored tradition of esoteric reference. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett documents a modern instance of the tradition in her

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