Parables of the Sages is a ground-breaking work in the study of parables in late antiquity. For the first time ever, R. Steven Notley and Ze ev Safrai provide a complete annotated collection of narrative parables found in the earliest stratum of Rabbinic Judaism, the literature of the Tannaim. These pedagogical gems are presented in their original Hebrew language with a fresh English translation. The authors' notes consider the historical, social...