Developed collaboratively by New Testament scholars and religious educators, this book is designed to be interdisciplinary: exegesis and religious education are not only presented side by side but are consistently related to each other from the very beginning. Text orientation and student orientation play equally important roles. By linking various approaches to the parables, an integrative interpretative method emerges that is particularly fruitful for teaching parables in the classroom. The authors do not limit themselves to naming interpretative hypotheses but highlight elements of the individual parables that can be connected to the students' life experiences. This understanding of the process of elementalization aims not to shorten or simplify but to represent fundamental and correlating features between the parables and the world.