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Gospel according to Luke X–XXIV: Introduction, Translation and Notes is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this second of two volumes on the Luke, beginning with chapter 10, Joseph A. Fitzmyer builds on the exhaustive introduction, definitive new translation, and extensive notes and commentary presented in his first volume. Fitzmyer brings to the task his mastery of ancient and modern languages, his encyclopedic knowledge of the sources, and his intimate acquaintance with the questions and issues...

still in vogue in the early part of this century (1903) in India, where M. D. Gibson observed it and proposed an interpretation of this parable on the basis of it. Her interpretation was supported by others (see ESBNT 174 n. 23) and was eventually bolstered by ancient evidence gathered by J. D. M. Derrett (see BIBLIOGRAPHY). The same custom seems to be known also in later rabbinic texts in which casuistry solved the problem of reconciling this practice with the prohibition of usury or interest in
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