O homem rico e Lázaro

In popular language, the parable is a story told with a comparison effect, whose objective is to present a teaching. Their understanding presupposes that listeners are willing to follow the speaker’s ideas so that they can understand the point of similarity between the image and the thing itself. There is no mistake with this definition. But it can convey the idea that the parable is easy to interpret. On the contrary, it is one of the most difficult literary genres to analyze. Its connections with popular culture and with ideas commonly spread in a society are not always easy to discover. In addition, there may also be a need to consider details involving intertextuality. This article intends to analyze the passage of Lc 16,19-31 under the notion of intertextuality Luke / Acts. In addition, it will highlight the political and economic contexts of the author’s time and the parallels of this passage in a first-century Egyptian tale; in a history of the of the Palestinian Talmud and in Luciano’s work.