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Evangelicalism’s most eminent scholars have labored over the Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible to make it an indispensable tool for all who study Scripture. The general editor, Walter Elwell, earned everyone’s respect with his Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. His associate editors are trusted authors and editors in their own right: Peter Craigie, J. D. Douglas, Robert Guelich, R. K. Harrison,...

has sometimes been classified as a plant fable. Isaiah’s “song of the vineyard,” although not termed a riddle, is in the same general category, with the middle set out in 5:1–6 and its solution immediately following (Is 5:7; cf. Ez 15). Ezekiel acquired a certain reputation in this area (Ez 20:49). Samson’s riddle at his wedding feast is the best-known biblical riddle (Jgs 14). Probably it was a form of diversion used on such occasions (vv 12, 13). The riddle took the form of a couplet: “Out of the
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