The Challenge of Jesus’ Parables (Biblia.com)

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This volume presents a fresh look at the meaning of Jesus' parables for Christian living today through a collection of essays by some of the top contemporary biblical scholars. The parables recorded in the Gospels are central for an understanding of Jesus and his ministry. Yet the parables are more than simple stories; they present a number of obstacles to contemporary readers hoping to fully...

TDNT 5.854–56; G. Kittel, ainigma, TDNT 1.178–80). One thing they have in common is that they are the opposite of plain speech. This is seen, for example, in Num 12:6–8a: “When there are prophets among you, I the Lord make myself known to them in visions; I speak to them in dreams. Not so with my servant Moses; he is entrusted with all my house. With him I speak face to face—clearly, not in riddles (MT: behidoth; LXX: di’ ainigmatōn); and he beholds the form of the Lord.”

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