Klein, Blomberg & Hubbard, Jr.'s ''Introduction to Biblical Interpretation'' view the parable as a biblical genre of narrative fiction. The parable of the Good Samaritan is one of two-thirds of Jesus parables that are ''traidic'' in structure, "That is, they present three main characters...one is a master figure (King, master, father, shepherd) and two are contrasting subordinates (servants, sons, sheep). Consider the shepherd with his one lost and ninety-nine safe sheep (Lk 15:3-7) (and) the man who was robbed and beaten, the pair of clerics who ignore him and the Samaritan who helps him...with the good Samaritan, interpreters should strive to preserve all three standards of meaning...From the example of the priest and Levite comes the principle that religious status or legalistic casuistry does not excuse lovelessness: from the Samaritan we learn we must show compassion to those in need; from the man in the ditch emerges the lesson that even an enemy is a neighbor." (p. 414)